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Sample of authors
James, P.D.
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in 1937. She served in the Red Cross during the war, and in 1941 she married Ernest Connor Bantry White. Although she dreamed of becoming a writer she helped her husband pass medical school while looking after the couple's daughters. After his return from the war, her husband...
Literary figures
Quincy Durant
Gender: Male
As a young boy, he met ‘Artie’ Wu in a children’s home, and when they were in their early teens, they ran away together from this. Now they run the company WuDu Ltd. (speciality: frauds and dangerous missions). Quincy Durant is very tall, very thin, rarely gets his hair cut and is always nervous. His skin has a slightly brown tint to it, which makes him look as if he always has a suntan, accor...