Harry Sidebottom is a British historian who is known for writing historical novels. A Quondam Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and lecturer at Lincoln College, Harry Sidebottom is also writing non-fiction history books– and he appeared as a presenter on the History Channel’s Ancient Discoveries. Of course, Sidebottom is…
Nora Keita Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Despite writing since childhood, she considered it to be just a hobby until her early thirties and worked as a counseling psychologist. She is now a New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author, and a recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. Jemisin’s most…
American author Taylor Jenkins Reid used to work in film production. In fact, she attended Emerson College, a film and TV school in Boston, before moving to Hollywood at age 21. This led her to work in casting for movies for a number of years. Working in casting was not her passion, as she discovered,…
Helen Sarah Fields is a British writer of crime, thriller, and historical fiction books. She studied law at the University of East Anglia, then went on to the Inns of Court School of Law in London. She practiced criminal and family law for thirteen years, before leaving the Bar after the birth of her second…
British author, Dilly Court-who is also writing under the pseudonym of Lily Baxter-began her career writing scripts for television commercials before turning her attention to historical fiction and family saga novels. Now, with more than 30 books published, Dilly Court is well known for her bestselling novels like The Button Box, The Orphan’s Dream, and…
Born on August 4, 1969, in Maidstone, Kent, England, Jojo Moyes (born Pauline Sara Jo Moyes) worked as a journalist before beginning her career as a romance writer. After having three of her manuscripts rejected, Moyes found success and became a full-time novelist in 2002. She twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award…
Kristin Hannah was a lawyer in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. She’s now the best-selling author of more than 20 books, including Firefly Lane and The Nightingale, the latter published in 43 languages. Recently, Hollywood seems to have taken an interest in her work, as Firefly Lane has been turned into a TV series…
The writer behind the Alex Delaware series and husband of Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist and Edgar Award-winning author published since 1985. He used to be a practicing psychologist but he quits his private practice in 1990 to write full-time. Since then, he produced more than 50 novels, most of them are…
Robin Hobb is one of the pen names of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Odgen. She grew up in Alaska, a setting that has impacted her work. She had her first stories published when she was thirty, under her other pen name, Megan Lindholm. A professional writer for almost 40 years, Robin Hobb has been writing epic…
Joy Ellis is an English crime writer, known for being the author of the DI Nikki Galena series, the DI Jackman and DS Marie Evans series, and the Detective Matt Ballard series of crime thrillers. Ellis spent most of her adult life in London and Surrey where she first worked as an apprentice florist, before…
Marie Lu (born Xiwei Lu) is an American author who is known for the New York Times bestselling series Legend and The Young Elites. Before becoming a full-time writer, she had a career in the video game industry, working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artist. Now, Lu specializes in Young Adult books beginning…
William Gibson is an award-winning American-Canadian writer and essayist who is known as a pioneer in the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. He started his writing career in the late 1970s, focusing on exploring the effects of technology on humans which led him to coin the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome,”…
