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Sample of authors
Wodehouse, P.G.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (Plum to his family and friends) was a British author born in Guildford, Surrey. His father was a civil servant stationed in Hong Kong, and his mother went back to England to give birth. She then returned to Hong Kong with the boy. When Wodehouse was two years old, he and his two older brothers were sent to England where they were brought up by relatives. Although...
Literary figures
Harry Friberg
Gender: Male
Stieg Trenter based his protagonist Friberg on his friend, the photographer K. W. Gullers. Friberg too is a well-known photographer. He is a cheerful, alert man who loves good food and the company of women. It is not he, however, who solves crime, that is the job of Detective Inspector Vesper Johnson. When Trenter died, his wife Ulla continued the series, allowing Friberg to get married.