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Theodore Dreiser (1871 to 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. He is best known for “Sister Carrie” (1900) and “An American Tragedy” (1925), and for the Trilogy of Desire, three novels about a Chicago streetcar tycoon. Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 27 August 1871, the twelfth of … Read more
Sandra Cisneros is an American novelist, poet and short story writer, born in Chicago on 20 December 1954. She is best known for her first novel, “The House on Mango Street” (1984), and the story collection “Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories” (1991), and is regarded as a key figure in Chicano literature. Cisneros grew … Read more
Harold Robbins (1916 to 1997) was an American novelist, born in New York City, whose fast-moving novels of melodrama, sex and high society made him one of the best-selling writers of all time. He wrote more than 25 bestsellers, including “The Carpetbaggers” (1961), and his reported worldwide sales exceed 750 million copies in 32 languages. … Read more
Anne McCaffrey (1926 to 2011) was an American-born science fiction writer, resident in Ireland from 1970, who is best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award, both for the novellas that became her 1968 novel … Read more
Terry Goodkind (1948 to 2020) was an American fantasy writer, born in Omaha, Nebraska, who is best known for The Sword of Truth, an epic fantasy series that began with “Wizard’s First Rule” in 1994. The series sold 25 million copies worldwide, was translated into more than 20 languages and was adapted for television as … Read more
Veronica Roth is an American novelist and short story writer, born in New York City in 1988, who is best known for the Divergent trilogy, a young adult dystopian series set in a future Chicago. The trilogy has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a series of films. Roth was … Read more
Raymond E. Feist is an American fantasy author, born in Los Angeles in 1945, who is best known for the Riftwar Cycle, a sequence of thirty novels that began with “Magician” in 1982 and ended with “Magician’s End” in 2013. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold more than 15 million … Read more
Herman Wouk (1915 to 2019) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952 for “The Caine Mutiny”. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction, including the Second World War epics “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance”, and his books have been translated into 27 languages. Wouk … Read more
Harry Turtledove is an American novelist, born in Los Angeles in 1949, who is best known for alternate history. A trained historian with a doctorate in Byzantine history, he has also written fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction, including the eleven-volume Southern Victory series and the Worldwar books. Publishers Weekly called him "The Master of … Read more
David Ignatius is an American journalist and novelist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950. He is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post and the author of twelve espionage novels, among them “Body of Lies” (2007), which Ridley Scott made into a film. Ignatius grew up in Washington, D.C., where his father, Paul … Read more
