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Vidal, Gore
The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal, but in his teens he changed his first name to his maternal grandfather’s surname. Gore Vidal was the only child of the pilot Eugene Luther Vidal and his wife, Nina S. Gore, an actress. He was not close to either. His parents were divorced when Vidal was ten, and although he m...
Literary figures
Tim Frazer
Gender: Male
An English engineer, part-owner of a little firm that goes bankrupt because of his partner’s extravagant habits. Instead, Tim Frazer became a secret agent and ‘spy hunter’ for a similarly secret British security service, and is successful in that role. He is young, handsome, is linguistically very gifted and has no family of his own. When Francis Durbridge’s novels about him were turned into a TV...