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Sample of authors
Le Carré, John
Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his father served a prison sentence for fraud, his mother left the family when David was five years old. He did not see her again until he was 21. He grew up at boarding schools and in his father’s home, before he got the opportunity to enter higher education at age 16. He studied la...
Literary figures
Lancelot Priestley
Gender: Male
He was forced to resign from the university where he taught Chemistry and Physics after skirmishes with the board. But he is well-off, and his hobby is to help English police officers solve tricky murder mysteries – usually by just listening to their reports in the books by John Rhode (pseudonym for Cecil Street). Dr. Lancelot Priestley has thick spectacles, is a widower and has a daughter named A...