Author Collections

Alice Adams (born August 14, 1926 in Fredericksburg, Virginia) wrote many novels, but is mostly known for... (more)
Harold Adams is an American author, born in Clark, South Dakota. He created the Carl Wilcox mystery... (more)
Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is a best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction, and a.... (more)
Buzz Aldrin (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.). American pilot and astronaut who landed... (more)
Isabel Allende Llona (born August 2, 1942 in Lima, Peru) is a Chilean writer. She is one... (more)
Martin Louis Amis (born August 25, 1949 in Oxford), son of Kingsley Amis, is a British writer... (more)
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson in April 4, 1928, American poet, memoirist, actress. Angelou is known... (more)
Nancy Atherton is an American author who has earned critical acclaim for her Aunt Dimity series of... (more)
Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952), named after her birth state, Nevada USA, is a mystery fiction... (more)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent... (more)
Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) has been an author, composer, computer game designer, stage director, film... (more)
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed American crime writer best known for two long-running... (more)
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920), American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery author best known... (more)
Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8, 1944), an American writer of fantasy fiction. Inspired by Tolkien's... (more)
Dan Brown, born June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA is an author of thriller fiction... (more)
Truman Capote (30 Sep. 1924 - 25 Aug. 1984) was an American writer of novels, plays and... (more)
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924), the thirty-ninth US President (1977 - 1981) and... (more)
Bruce Catton (Oct. 9, 1899 - Aug. 28, 1978) was a journalist and notable historian of the... (more)
US born and London based Tracy Chevalier (October 19, 1962) is a bestselling historical novelist who obtained... (more)
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (born April 12, 1947), a US author of political thrillers, espionage novels often... (more)
Eoin Colfer (born May 14, 1965 in Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish author of bestselling children and... (more)
John Michael Crichton, (October 23, 1942 - November 4, 2008), American author, medical doctor, film producer and... (more)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (born January 13, 1926 in East Orange, New Jersey) was an American feminist author... (more)
Tony DiTerlizzi (born September 6, 1969) is an American fantasy artist, children's book creator, and motion picture... (more)
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born January 6, 1931 in New York. After serving as a corporal in... (more)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a poet, playwright, and literary... (more)
American writer born on April 22, 1943, in South River, New Jersey. Evanovich began her career writing... (more)
William Faulkner (born September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi) was an influential writer, having written multiple... (more)
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska... (more)
German born and US resident Cornelia Caroline Funke (December 10, 1958), award-winning author of children's fiction, best... (more)
John Kenneth Galbraith (Oct. 15, 1908 - Apr. 29, 2006), Canadian-American economist, Harvard professor, and author of... (more)
John Edmund Gardner (Nov. 20, 1926 - Aug. 3, 2007) was an English spy novelist who obtained... (more)
Born 20 November 1923, Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She won the... (more)
Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940), bestelling American author of detective novels. Best known for her... (more)
John Grisham was born February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Before becoming a bestselling author, John Grisham... (more)
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris (born July 3, 1964) is a British author who obtained world fame with... (more)
Thomas Harris (born in Jackson, Tennessee April 11, 1940), American author of crime novels, most notably The... (more)
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and... (more)
Charles M. Higson (born 3 July 1958), English actor, comedian and author of the Young Bond series... (more)
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (July 20, 1919 - Jan., 11 2008), New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On... (more)
John Winslow Irving was born on March 2, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was an American... (more)
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962), American author and journalist. In 1997, he achieved world fame with... (more)
Garrik Kimovich Weinstein (born April 13, 1963), Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer and political... (more)
Caroline Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957. Her 1991 book, In Our Defense: The Bill of... (more)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Dec. 30, 1865 – Jan. 18, 1936), English author and poet, born in Bombay... (more)
Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926), American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books... (more)
Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American writer mostly known for his horror novels... (more)
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), American writer and mountaineer, world-famed for his outdoor and mountain-climbing writing... (more)
Pär Lagerkvist, born in born in Växjö, Sweden (May 23, 1891 - July 11, 1974) won the... (more)
John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931), an English... (more)
American author (born on August 4, 1965) of several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War... (more)
Elmore John Leonard, Jr. (born October 11, 1925), acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter with more than 50... (more)
John Griffith London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. Later, as an adolescent... (more)
John D MacDonald (July 24, 1916- December 28, 1986) gained international acclaim as an author of short... (more)
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey) was an American author, screenwriter... (more)
German author Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875- August 12, 1955) gained international recognition as a writer of... (more)
Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain) is a Canadian author best known for the... (more)
Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on June 21, 1948. He has been nominated for the... (more)
Larry McMurtry was born on June 3, 1936 in Archer City, Texas. He is an American novelist... (more)
Shanghai born Anchee Min (January 14, 1957) is a painter, photographer, musician, and author. Min's memoir, Red... (more)
Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 - July 10, 1863) is the credited author of A Visit... (more)
Toni Morrison (born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio) is an American author and a former... (more)
Fridtjof Nansen (October 10, 1861- May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian humanitarian, scientist, explorer, and diplomat. Nansen... (more)
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind '52... (more)
Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, best known for his... (more)
Christopher Paolini (born November 17, 1983), American writer and best known as the author of the Inheritance... (more)
Robert Brown Parker was born on September 17, 1932 in Springfield, Massachusetts. His is well known for... (more)
Author and rabbi Chaim Potok was born February 17, 1929 in the Bronx. He decided to become... (more)
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941), best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed... (more)
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first... (more)
Joanne "Jo" Rowling (born 31 July 1965), world-renowned British writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy... (more)
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born June 19, 1947, he is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. His... (more)
Jeffrey M. Shaara (born February 21, 1952), American novelist and son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara... (more)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (born November 21, 1902 in Leoncin, Congress Poland) was a Jewish author noted for... (more)
Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965), internationally bestselling American author writing novels with themes including Christianity... (more)
John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902—December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known of the 20th century. He... (more)
Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952), award winning American novel writer of Chinese descent often describing mother-daughter... (more)
Kay Thompson (born Catherine L. Fink, Nov. 9, 1908 - July 2, 1998) was an American author... (more)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist... (more)
Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949), American author and lawyer. Turow writes fiction and nonfiction books. His... (more)
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) worked as a librarian and bibliographer, before moving... (more)
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949 in Grand Rapids, MI) is an American author and illustrator... (more)
Charles Noel van Sandwyk was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1966. In 1977, he emigrated with... (more)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Nov. 11, 1922 – Apr. 11, 2007), American novelist known for works blending satire... (more)