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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Yudel Gordon
Gender: Male
He is a prison psychologist and the main character in several of Wessel Ebersohn’s books. Yudel Gordon is of Jewish descent, a smallish middle-aged man with greying and always unkempt hair, and he wears glasses. He is married in a childless marriage to Rosa, who runs their household, but when necessary he can put his foot down. He is shy in the company of beautiful women, such as the coloured l...