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Sample of authors
Ambler, Eric
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the end of the 1920s he joined them on tour. He attended Colfe's Grammar School and studied engineering at University of London between 1925 and 1928. He entered the advertising business in the 1930s, in 1937 he became head of a London advertising agency and a year later he began...
Literary figures
Rene Shade
Gender: Male
According to author Daniel Woodrell, the fictive small town St. Bruno in Florida is riddled with corruption and filled with crime and misery. The Shade family live there, and several members are engaged is shady deals. Not, however, the middle brother Rene Shade – an ex-boxer, scarred and wide-shouldered with dark skin and blue eyes, and just as ruthlessly tough as the worst elements in town. He o...