Robert van Gulik with wife Shui Shih-fang 1946
Sample of authors
Gulik, Robert van
Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East Indies, where his father served as a medical officer in the Dutch Army. Van Gulik’s father collected Chinese porcelain and passed his interest on to his son who taught himself Mandarin. Robert van Gulik was fascinated by Chinese history and culture, and he became an authority o...
Literary figures
Liam Devlin
Gender: Male
In the 1940s, he was a hero in Ireland who fought for the IRA, but later became a freelance professional murderer and, for example, helps the German nazis and even later the British secret services. He also became a mentor for Sean Dillon, another of author Jack Higgins’ (pseudonym for Henry Patterson) literary agents. Liam Devlin is a short man, very lively, and has black hair and blue eyes.