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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
Stephen Chbosky (born 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director, best known for the coming-of-age novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (1999) and for writing and directing its 2012 film adaptation. His second novel, the psychological horror story “Imaginary Friend”, followed in 2019. Chbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 25 January … Read more
Sidney Sheldon (1917 to 2007) was an American novelist, screenwriter and television producer. After winning an Academy Award in Hollywood and creating the sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie”, he turned to fiction in his fifties and wrote 18 novels, which have sold more than 300 million copies. He was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago on … Read more
Joseph Heller (1923 to 1999) was an American novelist best known for “Catch-22” (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy whose title became a standard term for a dilemma with no easy way out. He wrote seven novels, along with plays, screenplays, short stories and two volumes of autobiography. Heller was born on 1 May … Read more
Robert Ludlum (1927 to 2001) was an American thriller writer, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne. He wrote 27 novels, beginning with “The Scarlatti Inheritance” in 1971, and his books have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum was born in New York City on 25 May 1927 and educated at … Read more
Michael Chabon (born 24 May 1963 in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”, and the Hugo and Nebula awards for his alternate history detective novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”. Chabon’s parents divorced when he … Read more
William Peter Blatty (born 7 January 1928, died 12 January 2017) was an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for the 1971 horror novel “The Exorcist” and for his screenplay for the 1973 film version, which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Blatty was born in New York … Read more
James A. Michener (born 3 February 1907, died 16 October 1997) was an American writer of more than 40 books, most of them long historical sagas that follow generations of families in a single place, among them “Hawaii”, “Centennial”, “Chesapeake” and “Texas”. His first book, “Tales of the South Pacific”, won the Pulitzer Prize for … Read more
James Fenimore Cooper (born 15 September 1789, died 14 September 1851) was an American novelist whose historical romances of the frontier and the sea made him one of the most popular American authors of the 19th century. He is best known for the five Leatherstocking Tales, which feature the frontier scout Natty Bumppo and include … Read more
Alice Sebold (born 6 September 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American author known for the novels “The Lovely Bones” and “The Almost Moon” and for the memoir “Lucky”. “The Lovely Bones” stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than a year and was filmed by Peter Jackson in 2009. Sebold … Read more
