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Henry Miller (born 1891, died 1980) was an American novelist and essayist whose semi-autobiographical books, among them “Tropic of Cancer”, “Tropic of Capricorn” and the trilogy “The Rosy Crucifixion”, were banned in the United States until 1961. Their eventual American publication led to obscenity trials that changed the law on what could be printed. Miller … Read more
Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer, born in Medford, Massachusetts, on 10 April 1941. He is best known for the railway travelogue “The Great Railway Bazaar” (1975) and for the novel “The Mosquito Coast” (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted as a 1986 film and a … Read more
Gertrude Stein (born 1874, died 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector who lived in Paris from 1903 and hosted a salon there for the leading figures of modernist art and writing. Her books include “Three Lives”, “Tender Buttons”, “The Making of Americans” and “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”. Stein was … Read more
Anaïs Nin (born 1903, died 1977) was a French-born American diarist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. She kept a journal from the age of eleven until her death, and the published volumes of that diary, together with the erotic collections “Delta of Venus” and “Little Birds”, are the books she is best … Read more
Robert B. Parker (1932 to 2010) was an American crime writer, the creator of the Boston private detective Spenser, who appeared in forty of his novels from “The Godwulf Manuscript” (1973) onwards. He also wrote the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall series and a set of Westerns about the lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. … Read more
Mary Higgins Clark (1927 to 2020) was an American author of suspense novels, beginning with “Where Are the Children?” in 1975. She published more than fifty books, every one of them a bestseller in the United States, and they have sold more than 100 million copies there. She was born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins in … Read more
Walter Mosley is an American novelist, born in Los Angeles in 1952, who is best known for his crime fiction and above all for the Easy Rawlins mysteries, which began with “Devil in a Blue Dress” in 1990. In 2020 he became the first Black man to receive the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished … Read more
Peter Straub (1943 to 2022) was an American novelist and poet, known for horror and supernatural fiction such as “Ghost Story” and for “The Talisman”, which he wrote with Stephen King. His work won the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award. Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on … Read more
Ernest Cline is an American science fiction novelist and screenwriter, born in Ashland, Ohio, in 1972. He is the author of “Ready Player One”, “Armada” and “Ready Player Two”, and he co-wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film of “Ready Player One”. Cline grew up in Ashland in the 1970s and 1980s, absorbed in … Read more
David Eddings (1931 to 2009) was an American fantasy writer best known for “The Belgariad” and its sequel “The Malloreon”, and for the Sparhawk novels of “The Elenium” and “The Tamuli”. Working with his wife Leigh, who was credited as co-author from 1995, he wrote more than two dozen novels. Eddings was born in Spokane, … Read more
