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Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist from Atlanta, Georgia, who published a single novel in her lifetime. That novel, “Gone with the Wind” (1936), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. She was born in Atlanta on 8 November 1900, the daughter of … Read more
Pearl S. Buck (1892 to 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian best known for “The Good Earth”, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born … Read more
Dave Eggers (born 12 March 1970 in Boston) is an American writer, editor and publisher whose books include the memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”, the novels “What Is the What” and “The Circle”, and the Newbery Medal winner “The Eyes and the Impossible”. He founded the independent publisher McSweeney’s and co-founded the youth … Read more
Gregory Maguire (born 9 June 1954 in Albany, New York) is an American novelist best known for “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”, the 1995 novel behind the Broadway musical and the two-part film. He has written several dozen books for adults and children, and many of his adult … Read more
Colson Whitehead (born 6 November 1969 in New York City) is an American novelist and one of only four writers to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, for “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys”. He has published ten novels and two books of non-fiction. Whitehead grew up in Manhattan, attended Trinity School … Read more
Elmore Leonard (1925 to 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter who began with Westerns in the 1950s and went on to specialise in crime fiction and suspense thrillers. His best-known novels include “Hombre”, “Swag”, “LaBrava”, “Glitz”, “Get Shorty”, “Rum Punch” and “Out of Sight”, and many of them were adapted for … Read more
Dashiell Hammett (1894 to 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, and the creator of Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles and the Continental Op. He published five novels between 1929 and 1934, among them “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Thin Man”, and his work had a strong influence on … Read more
John Updike (1932 to 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic, best known for the Rabbit novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. He published more than 20 novels and more than a dozen story collections, and is one of only four writers to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. … Read more
Thomas Harris is an American novelist, born on 22 September 1940 in Jackson, Tennessee, and the creator of Hannibal Lecter. He has published six novels since 1975, four of them featuring Lecter, including “Red Dragon” and “The Silence of the Lambs”. His books have sold more than 50 million copies. Harris moved with his family … Read more
Don DeLillo is an American novelist, born in New York City on 20 November 1936, who has also written short stories, plays and essays. He is the author of “White Noise”, which won the National Book Award, along with “Libra”, “Mao II” and “Underworld”. His subjects include consumerism, nuclear war, television, terrorism, sport and the … Read more
