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
Parsons, Tony
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony Parsons was five years old the family moved to Billericay, also in Essex, where he grew up. He attended Barstable Grammar School in Basildon, which he left at the age of 16 with rotten grades. In the years immediately after that, he had several short, menial jobs, including a...
