Sample of authors
Baldacci, David
The American author David Baldacci, with family roots in Toscana in Italy, was born in Richmond, Virginia, as the youngest of three siblings. His father was a mechanic and his mother worked at a telephone company. Their son studied at Henrico High School before acquiring a B.A. at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and in 1968 a Law degree at the University of Virginia in...
Literary figures
Torsdag Nesta
Gender: Female
She is called Thursday Next, and is an agent for a state organisation in an absurd, parallel world (i.e. parallel to our own) that is imbued with literary features. She is newly married – we get to know that her husband Landen Parke-Laine drowned when he was three years old – and has a son Friday. Her mother is called Wednesday. Jasper Fforde has written a suite of very different fantasy crime nov...