Sample of authors
Cole, G.D.H.
He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He subsequently started at Oxford University, his subjects including classical and modern literature, and he gained a good degree. He got a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Durham 1913-14, but then returned to London where he did research for an organisation o...
Literary figures
Touie (Toussaint) Moore
Gender: Male
He is considered the first credible African-American private detective in crime fiction. Toussaint “Touie” Moore, however, left the profession at his own request to become a mail carrier, but was forced for financial reasons to take a new assignment as a detective when his wife Frances became pregnant. He is depicted by his creator Ed Lacy (pseudonym for Leonard S. Zinberg) as a pipe smoker and a...