Sample of authors
Wright, Willard Huntington
Willard Huntington Wright was an American critic and editor. He was born in Virginia, attended Harvard and later studied art in Paris and Munich. He was employed as an art and literature critic at the Los Angeles Times and between 1912 and 1914 he edited Smart Set magazine, popular among the American jet set. He also wrote several seminal works on art, philosophy, literature and culture as well...
Literary figures
Broder Cadfael
Gender: Male
Brother Cadfael is a former crusader who joined the Benedictines on his return to England. He is a herbalist at a monastery in Shrewsbury in Shropshire where he solves crime. These whodunits by Ellis Peters (a pen name used by Edith Pargeter) are set in England during the turbulent first half of the twelfth century. They have caused a major surge in popular interest in historical crime novels.