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Sample of authors
Runcie, James
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and is the son of Robert Runcie, former Bishop of St. Albans as well as a former Archbishop of Canterbury. The family moved to Oxford in 1960 where Runcie attended the Dragon School and between 1972 and 1977 – when the family lived in St. Albans – Marlborough College. Runcie wen...
Literary figures
Thackeray Phin
Gender: Male
For the last two years, the American professor of Philosophy, Thackeray Phin, has been in London where to his great delight he can solve some unusually complicated ‘impossible’ crimes. He is tall and thin and looks like George Bernard Shaw. He dresses eccentrically too, preferably in old-fashioned plus fours, and generally has an umbrella with him. John Sladek has written two entertaining and wel...