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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 to 1896) was an American author and abolitionist, best known for the anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). She wrote more than 30 books, including novels, travel memoirs and collections of articles and letters. She was born Harriet Elisabeth Beecher in Litchfield, Connecticut, the sixth of eleven children of the Calvinist … Read more
Zora Neale Hurston (1891 to 1960) was an American novelist, anthropologist and folklorist, and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. She published four novels in her lifetime, the best known of which is “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937), along with books of folklore and anthropology, an autobiography and more than 50 short stories, … Read more
Mitch Albom is an American author and sports journalist, born in Passaic, New Jersey, on 23 May 1958. He is best known for the memoir “Tuesdays with Morrie” (1997) and the novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” (2003). As of 2021 his books were reported to have sold more than 40 million copies … Read more
Raymond Chandler (born 1888, died 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter, and a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction. He is best known for the private detective Philip Marlowe, who first appeared in “The Big Sleep” (1939) and is the protagonist of all seven novels Chandler completed. Chandler was born in Chicago … Read more
John Irving (born 1942) is an American and Canadian novelist and screenwriter, best known for “The World According to Garp”, “The Cider House Rules” and “A Prayer for Owen Meany”. He has written sixteen novels, and he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000 for the film of “The Cider House Rules”. … Read more
Patricia Highsmith (born 1921, died 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer known for her psychological thrillers, including “Strangers on a Train” and the five novels featuring Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories over nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. … Read more
Dan Simmons (born 1948, died 2026) was an American writer of science fiction, horror and historical fiction, best known for the Hyperion Cantos and for the Arctic horror novel “The Terror”. His books often mix genres within a single story, and his first novel, “Song of Kali” (1985), won the World Fantasy Award. Simmons was … Read more
Edith Wharton (born 1862, died 1937) was an American novelist and short story writer who drew on her insider’s knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for “The Age of Innocence”. Her … Read more
Upton Sinclair (1878 to 1968) was an American novelist, muckraking journalist and socialist campaigner who wrote nearly 100 books. He is best known for “The Jungle” (1906), his novel about Chicago’s meatpacking plants, for “Oil!” (1927), and for the eleven Lanny Budd novels, the third of which, “Dragon’s Teeth”, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. … Read more
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer and poet, born in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. Her novel “The Color Purple” (1982) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1983, making her the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. She has also published story collections, essays, … Read more
