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Sample of authors
Japrisot, Sébastien
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents. After his father left the family, Japrisot was educated at a Jesuit school and then read philosophy at Sorbonne. He was an intelligent, but rebellious student prone to skipping lectures. At the age of sixteen, he began his debut novel, The False Start (1950, Les mal...
Literary figures
Herbie (Eberhardt) Kruger
Gender: Male
Born in Germany, as a teenager he was recruited by the Americans and eventually became a spy for Great Britain. He built up a large spy-ring in East Germany, but, when it was exposed, he had to fight to save his colleagues. Now, the clumsily heavily-built Eberhard ‘Herbie’ Kruger is seen as an old relic, but in John Gardner’s novels he shows that he still has a lot to contribute.