Sample of authors
Zangwill, Israel
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee. He grew up in London’s East End where he attended the Jew’s Free School. His talents soon came to the attention of his teachers, and when he was fourteen he began to teach younger pupils. When he was eighteen, after he had won a best comic story competition in a magazine, he go...
Literary figures
Carl Crader
Gender: Male
Middle-aged man who is the director of the American police organisation CIB (Computer Investigation Bureau). He reports directly to the White House and is on first-name terms with the president, according to author Edward D. Hoch. Little is known about Carl Crader’s private life, but he dyes his hair which has started to turn grey, and has two faithful members of staff: his assistant Earl Jazine a...