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Enid Blyton (1897 to 1968) was an English children’s writer whose books have sold more than 600 million copies and been translated into ninety languages. She is best remembered for Noddy, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers, the Faraway Tree and Malory Towers. Blyton was born in East Dulwich, south London, on … Read more
Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist best known for the four Neapolitan Novels, which begin with “My Brilliant Friend”. She writes in Italian, and has kept her identity secret since her first novel was published in 1992. Very little is known about her. She has said in interviews that she was born … Read more
Dr. Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 to 1991), the American author and illustrator of more than 60 children’s books, among them “The Cat in the Hat”, “Green Eggs and Ham” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”. His books had sold over 600 million copies and been translated into more than … Read more
Diana Gabaldon is an American author best known for the Outlander novels, in which Claire Randall, a twentieth-century nurse, travels back in time to eighteenth-century Scotland and falls in love with the Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. The series began with “Outlander” in 1991, now runs to nine novels, and had sold more than 50 million … Read more
Cassandra Clare is the pen name of Judith Lewis (born Judith Rumelt in 1973), an American author of young adult fantasy. She is best known for “The Mortal Instruments” and the wider Shadowhunter Chronicles, which began in 2007 with her first novel, “City of Bones”, a New York Times bestseller. Clare was born in Tehran … Read more
C.S. Lewis (1898 to 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian, best known for the seven fantasy novels that make up “The Chronicles of Narnia”. He also wrote the Space Trilogy, “The Screwtape Letters” and works of Christian apologetics such as “Mere Christianity”. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast on … Read more
Brandon Sanderson is an American author of fantasy and science fiction, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1975. He is best known for the “Mistborn” novels and “The Stormlight Archive”, both set in a shared fictional universe called the Cosmere, and for completing Robert Jordan’s series “The Wheel of Time”. Sanderson studied at Brigham Young University, … Read more
Bernard Cornwell is an English historical novelist, born in London in 1944, best known for the Sharpe novels about a British rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars and for the Saxon Stories, the thirteen books adapted for television as “The Last Kingdom”. He has published more than sixty novels since 1981. Cornwell was adopted and brought … Read more
Andy Weir is an American science fiction novelist, born in Davis, California, in 1972. He is best known for “The Martian”, which he first published himself in 2011, and for “Project Hail Mary” (2021). Both novels have been made into films. Weir grew up in Livermore, California, where his father was a physicist at Lawrence … Read more
Ali Hazelwood is the pen name of an Italian romance novelist and former neuroscience professor who lives in the United States. Her debut, “The Love Hypothesis” (2021), was a New York Times bestseller, and many of her books centre on women working in science and academia. Hazelwood was born and raised in Italy and lived … Read more
