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Jorge Semprún Maura (10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spa
Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and “father” of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards.
Marianne Wiggins (born September 8, 1947) is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
Kenan Crnkić (born 7 August 1977) is a Bosnian author of bestsellers about success (7 Secrets to Success) and happiness (Beware Which Wolf You Feed).
Diana Cage (born 1969) is an American feminist author, editor, cultural critic and radio personality. Her work examines sexuality, feminism, and LGBT culture. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Pratt Institute.
Thomas Iver “Tom” Bradley (born March 17, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist and writer of short stories. He is the author of The Sam Edwine Pentateuch, a five-book series, various volumes of which have been nominated for the Editor’s Book Award
Lauren Brooke is the pen name of popular author Linda Chapman and Beth Chambers who have written the books for “Heartland”. Beth Chambers went on to write the series “Chestnut Hill” which Cathy Hapka also contributed toward.In 2007, Heartland was ada
Luther Standing Bear (December 1868-February 20, 1939) (Ota Kte, “Plenty Kill” or “Mochunozhin”) was an Oglala Lakota chief notable in American history as an Native American author, educator, philosopher, and actor of the twentieth century. Standing
Barbara Ewing (born 1944) is a UK-based actress, playwright and novelist. Born in New Zealand, she graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Maori before coming to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Ro
Tsega Mekalu (born 1968) was born in Gondar, Ethiopia, and is a citizen of Israel. She is an author, journalist, community activist and former director of Kol Yisrael’s Reshet Aleph (“Network A”) radio station. Before her disqualification from runnin
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. Chang is the subject of
Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world’s best-selling writers from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was o