Joseph Kanon is an American author known for thriller and spy novels–most of those books are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and they often use real events.,Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York. He started…
Lilian Jackson Braun (1931 – 2011) was an American journalist and author of 30 novels featuring James Mackintosh Qwilleran (Qwill), a journalist and recovering alcoholic, who successively adopts two Siamese cats, with one of them may have special abilities helping Qwilleran to solve mysteries. She wrote the first three novels in the 1960s, then interrupted…
Born Sharon M. Kava in Silver Creek, Nebraska, American author Alex Kava always dreamt of becoming a writer and started as a teenager with short stories. After college, she worked in advertising and marketing before starting her own graphic design firm but returned to her alma mater as its director of public relations. A job…
Don’t you already know? Stephen King is one of the most famous authors in the world, the “King of Horror” who has sold more than 350 million copies. He already wrote more than 60 novels (and 200 short stories), and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. Born in Portland,…
Born on January 11, 1952, in Arizona, United States, Diana Gabaldon is an American writer famous for her Outlander series, which has been adapted for television. Before becoming a full-time writer, she first worked at the University of Pennsylvania. She also wrote comic books for Walt Disney for a year in the late 1970s and…
From a young age, Elizabeth Strout was drawn to writing things down and spent hours in the local library. In 1982, she graduated and received a law degree, and had her first story published in New Letters magazine. She rose to prominence in 1998 with her book Amy and Isabelle, adapted into a television movie…
Jane Green (also known as Jane Green Warburg) is a best-selling English-born American author who’s writing commercial women’s fiction. Green started as a publicist in her early 20s before working as a journalist for a few years–writing for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, and Cosmopolitan magazine. She started working on her first novel, Straight…
British writer Richard Kingsley Morgan is known for his work in the science fiction (the Takeshi Kovacs series) and fantasy (A Land Fit For Heroes series) genres. He is the author of books, short stories, but also Marvel graphic novels. Morgan is a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for his 2003 book Altered…
Kate Mosse is an English writer and broadcaster, mostly known for her book Labyrinth. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in publishing. She also writes for various newspapers and magazines, is a regular guest on UK radio and television, and has presented a few shows. Mosse was appointed Officer of the Order of the…
A former bookseller who used to work as a marketing manager with Waterstones in Glasgow, Andrew Raymond became a full-time writer of spy thrillers. He published his first book, the political thriller Official Secrets, in 2018, which launched the Novak and Mitchell series. It became a success and other books followed. Andrew Raymond also writes…
Karen Rose is a bestselling award-winning romantic suspense author from Baltimore, Maryland. She used to work as a chemical engineer for a large consumer goods company and started writing for fun. Her debut suspense novel was published in July 2003 and wrote since then more than twenty novels. Even if Rose’s books are set in…
Lesley Pearse is a best-seller British novelist who started writing more than a decade before being published for the first time. Her books always center around women with troubles. She published more than thirty books, not always in the same genres, from romance to crime, traditional sagas, historical, and contemporary. He is known for Belle,…
