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Sample of authors
Goodwin, Jason
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author and estate agent John Michell, were briefly involved in a relationship that broke up before their son was born. Jason was adopted by his mother’s husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, but when Jason was three years old, his mother left her husband for a younger m...
Literary figures
Jack Frost
Gender: Male
Middle-aged, chain-smoking bachelor Willian ’Jack’ Frost is a detective inspector in the fictive English town of Denton. He has a slovenly appearance, is careless and uses rather coarse language – but he is an excellent criminal investigator who grumpily solves complicated cases. His creator, R.D. Wingfield, only wrote six novels about him, but these have provided the basis for radio drama and sev...