Photo: Mary Evans /AF Archive/TT (1978)
Sample of authors
Highsmith, Patricia
Patricia Highsmith was an American author born in Fort Worth, Texas, as Mary Patricia Plangman. Both parents were artists who worked with illustrations and advertising. They separated before Highsmith was born, and her mother married Stanley Highsmith in 1924. The family moved to New York in 1927, a sad period for Highsmith. Her relationship with her mother was fraught and she did not get on...
Literary figures
Zack Walker
Gender: Male
Science-fiction writer and journalist, and an over-protective and virtually paranoid family father. He does everything so that his wife, Susan, and their two children shall be safe and secure, but his creator Linwood Barclay lets him time after time become entangled in complicated murder mysteries in a farcical manner. Which means that Zack Walter must act the amateur detective so that his...