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Sample of authors
Manotti, Dominique
Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her fifties, started to write novels that she began to use the pseudonym.
Thibault was born in Paris. She studied Economic History at the Sorbonne and belongs to a politically active generation that was young and committed during the war in Algeria. She was made aware of the ...
Literary figures
Bulldog (Hugh) Drummond [2]
Gender: Male
When Sapper (pseudonym for H.C. McNeile) died, his good friend Gerard Fairlie took over his hero Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond and continued to write about him. But the Bulldog the readers meet in Fairlie’s books differs significantly from Sapper’s version. He is the same character, with the same background and social contacts, but is considerably more sympathetic since his strongly nationalist and raci...