Sample of authors
Grisham, John
American author, lawyer and former politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled around the southern United States with his family in search of work. They settled in Southaven, Mississippi, when John Grisham was four. They were stretched for money and Grisham began to take odd jobs as a teenager. He was encouraged by his mother to enrol at a college,...
Literary figures
Peter Shaw
Gender: Male
A policeman’s son and newly appointed detective who discovers that his partner on his first case in Norfolk is his father’s old companion, the hard-skinned and chain-smoking veteran George Valentine. The pair often have different views, but they respect each other. Peter Shaw is almost 190 cm tall, and has one eye after an accident. He is married to the beautiful lawyer Lena from Jamaica, so aut...