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Alice Sebold (born 6 September 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American author known for the novels “The Lovely Bones” and “The Almost Moon” and for the memoir “Lucky”. “The Lovely Bones” stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than a year and was filmed by Peter Jackson in 2009. Sebold … Read more
Saul Bellow (1915 to 2005) was a Canadian-born American novelist whose books include “The Adventures of Augie March”, “Herzog” and “Humboldt’s Gift”. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and is the only writer to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times. He was born Solomon … Read more
Gene Wolfe (1931 to 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for “The Book of the New Sun”, a four-volume novel published between 1980 and 1983. He was noted for dense, allusive prose and unreliable narrators, and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. … Read more
Richard Matheson (1926 to 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter who worked mainly in horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for “I Am Legend” (1954), a vampire novel that has been filmed three times, and for novels and stories behind films such as “The Incredible Shrinking Man”, “Duel” … Read more
Willa Cather (1873 to 1947) was an American novelist known for her fiction about settlers and immigrants on the Great Plains, including “O Pioneers!”, “The Song of the Lark” and “My Ántonia”. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for “One of Ours”, a novel set during the First World War. Cather was born near … Read more
James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy in Los Angeles on 4 March 1948) is an American crime writer best known for the L.A. Quartet, which includes “The Black Dahlia” and “L.A. Confidential”, and for the Underworld USA Trilogy, which he describes as a secret history of America in the mid to late twentieth century. His … Read more
Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist, born in 1959. “The Corrections” (2001) won the National Book Award, “Freedom” followed in 2010, and his sixth novel, “Crossroads” (2021), is the first volume of a planned trilogy. Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois, and grew up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. … Read more
Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist and screenwriter, born in Boston in 1981. Her first novel, “Eileen” (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and she has since published “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”, “Death in Her Hands” and “Lapvona”. Moshfegh was raised in Boston by a … Read more
Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist, born in Portland, Maine, in 1956, much of whose fiction is set in her home state. She won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “Olive Kitteridge” and is also known for her series of novels about Lucy Barton. Strout grew up in small towns in Maine and in … Read more
Jhumpa Lahiri is an author of short stories, novels and essays who writes in both English and Italian. Her first book, the story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, and her first novel, “The Namesake” (2003), was made into a film directed by Mira Nair. She was born … Read more
