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Kingsley Amis, a radical in his youth, joined the Communist Party and led the Labour Club choir. Known for his conservative critique of contemporary life, he earned many prestigious literary awards
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Martin Amis is considered one of the most influential and creative voices among contemporary British authors.
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Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and sympathy about the small earthquakes upending women’s lives and their extraordinary, human ways of setting things right again. |
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Eleanor Taylor Bland has written twelve mysteries with African American Marti MacAlister as her tough streetwise cop who lives in a suburb about thirty miles north of Chicago with her two children.
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James Lee Burke's fiction is intense with autobiographical roots that entangle the plot and ensnare the reader. In his newest fiction White Doves At Morning, he writes about the Civil War.
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Harlan Coben firmly believes we’re all the other guy. Kidnapping, extortion, even murder (especially murder) – you always assume it will happen to the other guy. Not Harlan Coben.
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Thomas H. Cook's crime thrillers are compelling tales written with great lyrical beauty. He views his crime novels as a means of financing his literary works.
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Bernard Cornwell is the author of the acclaimed Richard Sharpe series, set during the Napoleonic Wars. For some years he wanted to write the adventures of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars - and so the Sharpe series was born.
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Nelson DeMille - “In the rarefied world of the intelligent thriller, authors just don’t get any better than Nelson DeMille.”
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Ivan Doig eloquently captures many of life’s most universal themes in his fiction and nonfiction.
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Andre Dubus was the author of several fiction titles and received many awards. He taught modern fiction and creative writing at Bradford College, the University of Alabama and Boston University.
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Andre Dubus III is best known for his novel House of Sand and Fog, which has recently been made into a movie.
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Louise Erdrich has the ability to weave contemporary issues such as generational conflicts or tribal politics with such universal themes as overcoming despair through love and hope. |
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Ken Follett started writing fiction when he needed money for car repairs. “It was a hobby for me. You know, some men go home and grow vegetables. I used to go home and write novels.”
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Dick Francis tried his hand at mystery writing due to the economic realities of raising a family, and in 1962 Dead Cert was published. It was an instant hit and Francis went on to write 41 international best sellers.
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Ward Just - might just be the finest writer you’ve never heard of. Critics have called him “underappreciated,” while the author himself says he’s merely “undersold.”
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Laurie R. King writes two very different series featuring strong, intelligent women, as well as "stand-alone" novels that include male protagonists.
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Margaret Maron - "I was born and bred in North Carolina, dropped out of college to marry a naval officer. We had a son, life was full, yet all the time, I kept promising myself that I was going to be a writer 'someday.' "
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Larry McMurtry has given readers some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction and ... characters whose screen personas have become icons of the American cinema. |
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Barbara Michaels describes her early mysteries as "awful" but liked the idea of writing and continued "scribbling".
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James Michener - Perhaps no author celebrated the importance of the sense of place in fiction as well as James Michener. |
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“Prolific” is the adjective most often used to describe Joyce Carol Oates.
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Sara Paretsky decided to write a detective novel: one of her favorite types of fiction. (She) wanted a heroine who was intelligent, likable and tough…ala Victoria (V.I.) Warshawski! |
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Iain Pears is the author of a very successful mystery series, as well as two historical novels, a non-fiction book on art history and various articles on art, history and finance.
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Anne Perry has an international following for her Victorian-era mysteries with their anachronistic depiction of autonomous and persistent female sleuths.
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Bill Pronzini has some sixty odd books and numerous short stories and anthologies to his credit.
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Ian Rankin is known for well-written, brooding stories filled with gritty realism. Rankin’s most popular and prolific work is the “Inspector Rebus” series. These police procedurals focus on the careful solving of a crime.
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Luanne Rice uses strong writing, well-developed settings, and engaging characters to tell stories which generally revolve around the drama created in the relationships among family members.
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Emilie Richards tackles family issues with their complex interpersonal relationships.
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Philip Roth continues to be regarded as one of America’s most acclaimed, outspoken, and frequently controversial, authors.
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Mark Salzman traveled to Changsha, China, to teach English at Hunan Medical College for two years. He wrote of his experiences in Iron and Silk and went on to act in a film version of the book.
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Anita Shreve describes a common theme in her work as a “sense of passion existing within a framework of restraint.” She also considers infidelity a “gold mine” and frequently incorporates it into her stories.
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Paul Theroux, novelist, essayist and travel writer whom many critics have deemed “irascible” and “grumpy.”
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Adriana Trigiani author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series, writes from the heart about the complexities of being a woman—about love and work and the difficult choices that emanate from them.
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Joanna Trollope’s characters are both complex and believable, with a focus on the female. Her engrossing but leisurely-paced contemporary novels reveal various contrasts which illuminate many of life’s nuances.
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Anne Tyler is inspired by dysfunctional families and provides her loyal readers and new fans alike with novels keenly sensitive to this all-too-human condition.
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Kurt Vonnegut was the voice of several generations, a champion for those who, like himself, viewed society’s excesses and eccentricities with more than a little skepticism.
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Alice Walker is best known for her third novel, The Color Purple, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Always provocative, her works have included such topics as abusive relationships, female sexuality and the fear of death.
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Stuart Woods knows...Stuart Woods. With nearly every character and storyline, elements of Woods' personal biography are cunningly incorporated and easy to spot, if one knows what to look for.
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