Sample of authors
Philips, Judson
American author and journalist, born in Northfield, Massachusetts. Judson P. (Pentecost) Philips has primarily become known as a crime writer under his own name as well as the pseudonym Hugh Pentecost. While his writing career from 1939 on is well charted, there is little information about his private life: in the few interviews he gave, he was happy to talk about his writing, but not about his...
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Sample of authors
Piglia, Ricardo
Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an ...
