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Beverly Cleary (1916 to 2021) was an American children’s author whose characters include Ramona Quimby and her sister Beezus, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse. Her books have sold 91 million copies since the first was published in 1950. She was born Beverly Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon, and spent her early … Read more
Pat Conroy (1945 to 2016) was an American novelist and memoirist, regarded as a leading figure of late 20th-century Southern literature. His novels “The Great Santini”, “The Lords of Discipline” and “The Prince of Tides” drew on his own family and schooling, and all three were made into films. Conroy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, … Read more
Ira Levin (1929 to 2007) was an American novelist and playwright whose seven novels include “Rosemary’s Baby” (1967), “The Stepford Wives” (1972) and “The Boys from Brazil” (1976). He also wrote “Deathtrap” (1978), the longest-running thriller in Broadway history, and many of his books and plays have been filmed. Levin was born in New York … Read more
Peter Benchley (1940 to 2006) was an American novelist best known for “Jaws” (1974), the story of a great white shark that preys on a Long Island resort town. He co-wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film of the book, and in later life became an advocate for sharks and marine conservation. Benchley was … Read more
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 to 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright, born in Manchester and settled for most of her life in the United States. She is best known for three children’s novels: “Little Lord Fauntleroy” (1886), “A Little Princess” (1905) and “The Secret Garden” (1911). She also wrote a long list of novels … Read more
Donald E. Westlake (1933 to 2008) was an American crime writer with more than a hundred books to his name. He is best known for two long-running series about professional thieves: the hard-boiled Parker novels, written as Richard Stark, and the comic capers of John Dortmunder, published under his own name. He won three Edgar … Read more
Zane Grey (1872 to 1939) was an American novelist whose adventure stories of the frontier did much to define the Western as a genre. Born Pearl Zane Grey in Zanesville, Ohio, he wrote more than 90 books, of which “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1912) was the best seller. His novels and stories were adapted … Read more
Amy Tan is an American novelist, born on 19 February 1952 in Oakland, California, to Chinese immigrant parents. She is best known for her first book, “The Joy Luck Club” (1989), about four Chinese American mother and daughter pairs, which was filmed in 1993. She has since published five further novels, two children’s books, two … Read more
Louise Erdrich is an American novelist, poet and children’s author, born on 7 June 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, and an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. Most of her fiction is set on and around a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. She won the National Book … Read more
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for the Mars trilogy, about the settlement and terraforming of Mars. His novels often deal with ecology, politics and climate change, and they have won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on 23 March 1952 and … Read more
