Sample of authors
Coles, Manning
Manning Coles is a joint pseudonym for the English duo Adelaide Manning and Cyril Coles, who also worked together under another alias, Francis Gaite. The two last Manning Coles novels, Search for a Sultan (1961) and The House at Pluck’s Gutter (1963), were however written by Coles together with Tom Hammerton after Manning had died. It is also possible – although it has not been confirmed – that he...
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Sample of authors
Pollock, Donald Ray
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...
