Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey is published in 114 countries and more than 47 languages, with more than 750,000 5* reviews with international sales passing 275 million copies.
He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).
Jeffrey has been married for 53 years to Dame Mary Archer DBE. They have two sons, William and James, three grandsons and two granddaughters, and divide their time between homes in London, Cambridge and Mallorca.
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John Altman's thrillers have sold over a quarter-million copies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Poland, and the Netherlands. He graduated from Harvard University in 1992. He lives with his wife and children in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is at work on his next book.
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Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes began his career as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald, when as foreign correspondent in the US he covered Watergate and President Nixon's resignation, among many major international stories. He then went on to become a successful screenwriter, having written the screenplays for Mad Max 2, Dead Calm, Bangkok Hilton, Payback and From Hell. He lives in Sydney with his wife and four children.
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Henri Charrière
Henri Charrière was a convicted murderer chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a hugely successful memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony on French Guiana.
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Lian Hearn
Lian Hearn's beloved Tales of the Otori series, set in an imagined feudal Japan, has sold more than four million copies worldwide and has been translated into nearly forty languages. It is comprised of five volumes: ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON, THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON and HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDE. The series was followed by two standalone novels, BLOSSOMS AND SHADOWS and THE STORYTELLER AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS, also set in Japan.
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Hearn's forthcoming series: The Tale of Shikanoko will be published by FSG in 4 volumes in 2016. Book 1 will be EMPEROR OF EIGHT ISLANDS out in late-April 2016, followed by book 2: AUTUMN PRINCESS, DRAGON CHILD (June), book 3: LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (August), and the fina -
S. Hussain Zaidi
S. Hussain Zaidi is a prominent Indian author, journalist, and screenwriter celebrated for his invaluable contributions to the world of crime reporting, investigative journalism, and storytelling. Born on February 28, 1962, in Mumbai, India, Zaidi has left an indelible mark on the literary and cinematic landscapes of India, particularly in the realm of crime and the Mumbai underworld.
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S. Hussain Zaidi embarked on his career as a crime reporter, where he honed his skills in uncovering hidden truths and delving into the intricacies of organized crime in Mumbai. His early experiences as a journalist provided him with a deep understanding of the criminal world and its dynamics.
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Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian.
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Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. Later he enrolled in the University of Helsinki as a theology student, according to his mother's wishes, but soon abandoned theology in favour of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, graduating in 1929. While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in 1925. In 1927 he went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life. In terms of style, the novel is considered to be -
Rasheed Kidwai
Rasheed Kidwai is a non-fiction Indian writer and journalist. He has authored SONIA - A Biography and 24, Akbar Road, a book based on Congress party headquarters.
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Kidwai graduated from the reputed St. Stephen's, Delhi and studied Mass Communications from Leicester University, UK. He was awarded an 'India Scholarship' by the British Council and Commonwealth office in U.K. He has worked with reputed newspapers, like the National Herald, Asia News International, The Asian Age. Presently, he is currently working as an Associate Editor with the Delhi Bureau for The Telegraph.
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Cathryn Kemp
Cathryn is a Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter and journalist, with a prolific career writing celebrity, inspirational, true crime, addiction and nostalgia titles.
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A Poisoner's Tale, published by Transworld/Penguin Random House on July 11th, 2024, is her first foray into historical fiction.
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Nguyễn Huy Thiệp
Nguyễn Huy Thiệp sinh năm 1950, quê huyện Thanh Trì, thành phố Hà Nội. Thuở nhỏ ông cùng gia đình lưu lạc khắp nông thôn đồng bằng Bắc Bộ, từ Thái Nguyên qua Phú Thọ, Vĩnh Phúc.
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Năm 1960, gia đình chuyển về quê, định cư ở xóm Cò, làng Khương Hạ (nay là phường Khương Đình, quận Thanh Xuân), Hà Nội. Năm 1970, ông tốt nghiệp khoa sử Trường Đại học Sư phạm Hà Nội và theo ông bị đưa về làng dạy học tại Tây Bắc đến năm 1980, vì bố ông có làm việc với Pháp, cho nên lý lịch ông vì vậy bị xếp vào loại "không sạch”.[1] Năm 1980, ông chuyển về làm việc tại Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo, sau đó, làm việc tại Công ty Kỹ thuật trắc địa bản đồ, Cục Bản đồ cho đến khi về hưu.
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Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson writes the Kaspar Brothers historical thrillers and other novels. His latest novels are Show Game and Lines of Deception. Anderson was a Fulbright Fellow and has translated bestselling German fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Years ago, Steve Anderson planned to become a history professor. He even landed a Fulbright Fellowship in Munich. Then he discovered fiction writing — he could make stuff up, he realized, using actual events and characters to serve the story. Now he writes novels that often introduce a little-known aspect of history, mixing in overlooked crimes, true accounts, and gutsy underdogs.
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for the next decade. She received a BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.
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Ben Elton
Ben Elton was born on 3 May 1959, in Catford, South London. The youngest of four, he went to Godalming Grammar school, joined amateur dramatic societies and wrote his first play at 15. He wanted to be a stagehand at the local theatre, but instead did A-Level Theatre Studies and studied drama at Manchester University in 1977.
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His career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. His ground breaking work as a TV stand-up comedian set the (high) standard of what was to follow. He has received accolades for his hit TV sit-coms, The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line.
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Frederick Forsyth
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The son of a furrier, he was born in Ashford, Kent, educated at Tonbridge School and later attended the University of Granada. He became one of the youngest pilots in the Royal Air Force at 19, where he served on National Service from 1956 to 1958. Becoming a journalist, he joined Reuters in 1961 and later the BBC in 1965, where he served as an assistant diplomatic correspondent. From July to September 1967, he served -
Mary Basson
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Immersed in researching the book, Basson learned to her horror that the Lenbachhaus, the museum to which Münter donated her trove of preserved Blue Rider works, was about to be closed for three years. Unwilling to miss seeing the artist’s hand at work in the museum installation, within hours, Basson had bought a plane ticket to Munich. In room after room at the Lenbachhaus, Basson encountered the splendors of the Blue Riders whose emotional depth and intellec -
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007) was an American writer who won awards in three careers—a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist.
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His TV works spanned a twenty-year period during which he created I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70), Hart to Hart (1979-84), and The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980) that he became most famous. -
Geoffrey Archer
Geoffrey Archer is a fiction writer from London. He specialises in military adventures and spy thrillers and created the character Sam Packer.
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Keigo Higashino
Associated Names:
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* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.
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Nam Cao
Nam Cao (tên thật là Trần Hữu Tri) là một nhà văn hiện thực lớn, chuyên viết truyện ngắn. Ông đã ghép hai chữ ở tên tổng và tên huyện quê mình làm bút danh (Quê ông tại làng Đại Hoàng, tổng Cao Đà, huyện Nam Sang, tỉnh Hà Nam - nay là xã Hòa Hậu, huyện Lý Nhân, Hà Nam).
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Một số truyện ngắn nổi tiếng của ông :
- Chí Phèo
- Đời Thừa
- Lão Hạc
- Giăng Sáng
- Đôi mắt
- Bài học quét nhà
- Từ ngày mẹ chết
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Andrea Hirata
Under a bright sunny sky, the three-day Byron Bay Writers’ Festival welcomed Andrea Hirata who charmed audiences with his modesty and gracious behavior during two sessions.
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Andrea also attended a special event where he and Tim Baker, an Australian surfing writer, spoke to a gathering of several hundred school children. During one session, Andrea was on a panel with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Washington, DC, Katharine Boo, which he said was a great honor.
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Xuân Phượng
Nguyễn Thị Xuân Phượng sinh năm 1929, quê làng Nham Biều, huyện Hương Trà, tỉnh Thừa Thiên - Huế. Năm 16 tuổi (1945) bà thoát ly gia đình, xếp bút nghiên lên đường tranh đấu giành độc lập cho đất nước. Bà từng làm nhiều nghề như kỹ thuật viên thuốc nổ, y tá, phóng viên bản tin kháng chiến của Bộ Tài chính, thông dịch viên, bác sĩ nhi khoa phòng y tế khu Ba Đình, dịch và thuyết minh phim tiếng Pháp, đạo diễn phim tư liệu chiến trường…
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Năm 2011 Chính phủ Pháp trao tặng nữ nhà văn Xuân Phượng Huân chương Bắc đẩu bội tinh vì những đóng góp cho sự hiểu biết sâu sắc hơn giữa Việt Nam và Pháp cả trong thời chiến và thời bình. Ngoài nhà văn, bà còn là đạo diễn phim tài liệu nổi tiếng, chủ phòng tranh Lotus tại TP.HCM. -
Phùng Quán
Năm 1945, ông tham gia Vệ quốc quân, là chiến sĩ trinh sát Trung đoàn 101 (tiền thân là Trung đoàn Trần Cao Vân). Sau đó ông tham gia Thiếu sinh quân Liên khu IV, đoàn Văn công Liên khu IV.
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Đầu năm 1954, ông làm việc tại Cơ quan sinh hoạt Văn nghệ quân đội thuộc Tổng Cục Chính trị Quân đội Nhân dân Việt Nam (tiền thân của Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội).
Tác phẩm đầu tay Vượt Côn Đảo của ông được giải thưởng của Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam năm 1955. Về quá trình viết tác phẩm này, trong di cảo hồi ký "Tôi đã trở thành nhà văn như thế nào" do Nhà xuất bản Văn Nghệ thành phố Hồ Chí Minh xuất bản năm 2007, ông kể nhiều chi tiết rất thú vị về sự ngẫu nhiên và tình cờ đưa ông từ một người lính trở thành một nhà văn và những oan khuất phải gánh chịu nhưng với -
Hector Malot
Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
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His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
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Chu Lai
Đại tá, nhà văn Chu Lai có tên khai sinh là Chu Văn Lai, sinh ngày 5 tháng 2 năm 1946, tại xã Hưng Đạo, huyện Phù Tiên, tỉnh Hưng Yên, hiện ở Hà Nội. Ông là đảng viên Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam, hội viên Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam (từ năm 1980).
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Ông là con trai của nhà viết kịch Học Phi. Trong chiến tranh Việt Nam ông công tác trong đoàn kịch nói Tổng cục Chính trị rồi trở thành chiến sĩ đặc công hoạt động trong vùng Sài Gòn. Sau 1973, ông về làm trợ lý tuyên huấn Quân khu 7. Đến cuối năm 1974 ông tham dự trại sáng tác văn học Tổng cục Chính trị và sau đó học tại Trường Viết văn Nguyễn Du khóa 1. Sau khi tốt nghiệp, ông biên tập và sáng tác cho Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Nhà văn Chu Lai còn viết một số kịch bản sân khấu, kịch bản phim và tham gia đóng -
Nguyên Phong
Giáo sư John Vũ – Nguyên Phong, là một nhà khoa học nổi tiếng ở Mỹ, đứng trong Top 10 người sáng tạo nhất thế giới (mà đứng đầu là Bill Gates và Steve Jobs). Ông chính là người dịch tác phẩm nổi tiếng Hành trình về Phương Đông, một trong những tác phẩm hay nhất về phương Đông từ trước đến nay. Giáo sư John Vũ cũng là một người rất quan tâm đến khoa học công nghệ, với trên 10.000 bài viết đã được đăng trên blog Science-Tecnology.
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Ông sinh năm 1950, tên thật là Vũ Văn Du trong một gia đình đông con. Cha ông là một dược sĩ, y sĩ có tầm và có tâm, đóng góp rất lớn cho nền y học nước nhà. Năm 1968, ông rời quê hương sang Hoa Kỳ để bắt đầu cuộc hành trình học hành đầy gian nan, vất vả. Tại đây ông tốt nghiệp ngành điện toán và sinh vật học cùng t -
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh là tên và cũng là bút danh của một nhà văn Việt Nam chuyên viết cho tuổi mới lớn. Ông sinh ngày 7 tháng 5 năm 1955 tại huyện Thăng Bình, Quảng Nam.
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Cuộc đời và sự nghiệp
Thuở nhỏ ông theo học tại các trường Tiểu La, Trần Cao Vân và Phan Chu Trinh. Từ 1973 Nguyễn Nhật Ánh chuyển vào sống tại Sài Gòn, theo học ngành sư phạm. Ông đã từng đi Thanh niên xung phong, dạy học, làm công tác Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng Sản Hồ Chí Minh. Từ 1986 đến nay ông là phóng viên nhật báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng, lần lượt viết về sân khấu, phụ trách mục tiểu phẩm, phụ trách trang thiếu nhi và hiện nay là bình luận viên thể thao trên báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Chủ nhật với bút danh Chu Đình Ngạn. Ngoài ra, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh còn có những bút danh khác như Anh Bồ Câu, -
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư (sinh năm 1976 tại xã Tân Duyệt, huyện Đầm Dơi, tỉnh Cà Mau) là một nữ nhà văn trẻ của Hội nhà văn Việt Nam, được biết đến nhiều nhất bởi tập truyện gây tranh cãi mang tên Cánh đồng bất tận. Tập truyện, dù vậy, đã nhận được giải thưởng của Hội nhà văn Việt Nam năm 2006 và truyện ngắn Cánh đồng bất tận được chuyển thể thành phim điện ảnh cùng tên đạo diễn bởi Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình năm 2010. Hiện cô đang sinh sống và công tác ở Đầm Dơi, Cà Mau.
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Tác phẩm
Ngọn đèn không tắt (2000)
Ông ngoại (2001)
Biển người mênh mông (2003)
Giao thừa (tập truyện ngắn, 2003, tái bản 2012)
Nước chảy mây trôi (tập truyện ngắn và ký, 2004)
Cái nhìn khắc khoải
Đau gì như thể (truyện ngắn-giải ba cuộc thi truyện ngắn của báo văn nghệ năm 2004-2005)
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Hoàng Nam Tiến
Hoàng Nam Tiến, nguyên là Chủ tịch FPT Software, FPT Telecom, Tập đoàn FPT. Hiện ông là Phó chủ tịch Hội đồng trường - Trường Đại học FPT, phụ trách hoạt động đào tạo sau đại học.
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Gia nhập FPT năm 1993, ông Tiến làm việc tại đây liên tục trong 30 năm và được coi là một nhân tố quan trọng góp phần vào sự thành công của Tập đoàn. Ông được biết tới là một nhà quản trị, một chuyên gia công nghệ, một cố vấn trong hoạt động khởi nghiệp, một nhà giáo và một diễn giả được yêu thích. -
Nguyên Ngọc
Văn nghiệp
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Sau Hiệp định Genève, ông tập kết ra Bắc và viết tiểu thuyết Đất nước đứng lên, kể về cuộc kháng chiến chống Pháp của người Ba Na, tiêu biểu là anh hùng Núp và dân làng Kông-Hoa, dựa trên câu chuyện có thật của anh hùng Đinh Núp. Tác phẩm khi xuất bản được nhiều người yêu thích và hâm mộ. Sau này cuốn truyện được dựng thành phim.
Năm 1962 ông trở lại miền Nam, lấy bí danh Nguyễn Trung Thành, hoạt động ở khu V, là Chủ tịch chi hội Văn nghệ giải phóng miền Trung Trung Bộ, phụ trách Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân giải phóng của quân khu V. Thời gian này ông sáng tác truyện Rừng xà nu.
Sau chiến tranh, ông có thời gian làm Phó Tổng thư ký Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam, Tổng biên tập báo Văn nghệ.
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Howard Fast
Howard Fast was one of the most prolific American writers of the twentieth century. He was a bestselling author of more than eighty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays. The son of immigrants, Fast grew up in New York City and published his first novel upon finishing high school in 1933. In 1950, his refusal to provide the United States Congress with a list of possible Communist associates earned him a three-month prison sentence. During his incarceration, Fast wrote one of his best-known novels, Spartacus (1951). Throughout his long career, Fast matched his commitment to championing social justice in his writing with a deft, lively storytelling style.
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Nguyễn Ngọc Tiến
Tác giả Nguyễn Ngọc Tiến hiện là Phóng viên báo Hà Nội mới. Các tác phẩm đã xuất bản: Phần mềm tình yêu (truyện ngắn, NXB Hội nhà văn, 2006) ; 5678 bước chân quanh Hồ Gươm (NXB Văn học, 2008) ; Đi ngang Hà Nội (NXB Văn học-Chibooks, 2012); Đi dọc Hà Nội (NXB Văn học-Chibooks, 2012).
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Robert Lautner
Robert Lautner was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children.
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Robert Lautner is the pen name of the author, Mark Keating. His latest work is Quint, a JAWS novel, writing as Robert Lautner. -
Andrew J. Fenady
Andrew J. Fenady was born in Toledo, Ohio. A veteran writer and producer in Hollywood, Fenady created and produced The Rebel (1959–1961) for television, starring Nick Adams. The top-rated show lasted three seasons and the Fenady-penned theme song, “Johnny Yuma,” became a No. 1 hit for Johnny Cash. He wrote and produced the 1969 John Wayne hit Chisum and the popular TV western series Hondo and Branded. His other credits include the adaptation of Jack London’s The Sea Wolf, with Charles Bronson and Christopher Reeve, and the western feature Ride Beyond Vengeance, which starred Chuck Connors. His acclaimed western novels include Big Ike, Riders to Moon Rock, The Trespassers, The Summer of Jack London, The Range Wolf, and Destiny Made Them Brot
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Arthur Gould Lee
Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Stanley Gould Lee began his aviation career during the First World War in the Royal Flying Corps. He scored seven confirmed victories and rose to the rank of captain during the war. He continued his service in the Royal Air Force until he retired in 1946. He was also the author of several books, including the three autobiographical books below.
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Arika Okrent
Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known particularly for her 2009 book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, a result of her five years of research into the topic of constructed languages.
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Arika Okrent was born in Chicago and became fascinated with languages at an early age. She flitted from language to language in school, wondering why she couldn't just settle down and commit to one, until she finally discovered a field that would support and encourage her scandalous behavior: Linguistics. After some lengthy affairs with Hungarian (she taught in Hungary after college) and American Sign Language (she earned an M.A. in Linguistics -
Nino Ricci
Nino Ricci’s first novel was the internationally acclaimed Lives of the Saints. It spent 75 weeks on the Globe and Mail‘s bestseller list and was the winner of the F.G. Bressani Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. In England it won Betty Trask Award and Winnifred Holtby Prize, in the U.S. was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and in France was an Oiel de la lettre Selection of the National Libraries Association.
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Published in seventeen countries, Lives of the Saints was the first volume of a trilogy that continued with In a Glass House, hailed as a “genuine achievement” by The New York Times, and Where She Has Gone, nominated for the Giller Pr -
Kim Manjung
Gim Manjung (1637–1692) was a Korean novelist and politician of the mid-Joseon period. He was eminent Neo-Confucian scholars of the Joseon period.
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A member of the yangban class, Kim passed the state civil service examination and rose through the official ranks to become a royal academic counselor and minister during the reign of King Sukjong. He was exiled twice for involvement in the political factionalism of the time. As a man of letters his most renowned works were the novels Sassi Namjeonggi ("Record of Lady Sa's Trip to the South" 謝氏南征記) and The Nine Cloud Dream Kuunmong ("The Cloud Dream of the Nine" 九雲夢). The former is a novel about family affairs set in China, but it is also a satirical depiction of the political reality of his day, -
Kimberley Freeman
Pen name of Kim Wilkins.
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Kimberley was born in London and her family moved back to Australia when she was three years old. She grew up in Queensland where she currently lives.
Kimberley has written for as long as she can remember and she is proud to write in many genres. She is an award-winning writer in children’s, historical and speculative fiction under her birth name Kim Wilkins. She adopted the pen name Kimberley Freeman for her commercial women’s fiction novels Duet and Gold Dust to honour her maternal grandmother and to try and capture the spirit of the page-turning novels she has always loved to read. Kim has an Honours degree, a Masters degree and a PhD from The University of Queensland where she is also a lecturer. She lives in Bris -
Erich Segal
Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story, a bestseller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit.
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Destination Infinity
Blogger, Video Creator, Graphic Designer & Author.
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Lê Đỗ Quỳnh Hương
“MC Quỳnh Hương từng là host của ‘Thay Lời Muốn Nói’- một trong những chương trình âm nhạc định kỳ trên truyền hình lâu đời nhất tại Việt Nam trong 19 năm trở lại đây. Thạc sĩ âm nhạc học, tác giả, và cũng là một diễn giả truyền cảm hứng với mong muốn mang đến năng lượng tích cực và lan tỏa yêu thương đến cho cộng đồng.”
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Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Freedland is a British journalist. He also writes thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
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David Adam
David Adam (b. 1936) was a British priest and author and one of the best-loved figures in Celtic Spirituality.
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Erri De Luca
Upon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was as a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999.
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He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.
De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.
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Jon Cleary
Australian popular novelist, a natural storyteller, whose career as a writer extended over 60 years. Jon Cleary's books have sold some 8 million copies. Often the stories are set in exotic locations all over the world or in some interesting historical scene of the 20th century, such as the Nazi Berlin of 1936. Cleary also wrote perhaps the longest running homicide detective series of Australia. Its sympathetic protagonist, Inspector Scobie Malone, was introduced in The High Commissioner (1966). Degrees of Connection, published in 2003, was Scobie's 20th appearance. Although Cleary's books can be read as efficiently plotted entertainment, he occasionally touched psychological, social, and moral dilemmas inside the frame of high adventure.
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Shaun Attwood
In prison, I read over 1000 books in just under six years, including many literary classics. Books were the lifeblood of my rehabilitation.
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As told on National Geographic Channel's Locked-Up/Banged-Up Abroad episode "Raving Arizona," I used a tiny pencil sharpened on a cell door to write the first prison blog, Jon’s Jail Journal. My writing, smuggled out of the jail with the highest rate of death in America, run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, turned the international media spotlight on the human rights violations, including guards murdering mentally ill inmates, dead rats in the food, lack of medical care...
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Giản Tư Trung
Nhà hoạt động giáo dục Giản Tư Trung hiện là Hiệu trưởng Trường Doanh Nhân PACE; Viện trưởng Viện Giáo dục IRED; và Phó Chủ tịch Quỹ Văn hóa Phan Châu Trinh.
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Đồng thời, Ông còn là Trưởng Ban Tổ Chức Giải thưởng Sách Hay (nhằm khuyến đọc sách hay cho cộng đồng); Chủ nhiệm Học bổng Lãnh đạo Khai phóng IPL Scholarship (dành cho Lãnh đạo trẻ); Khởi xướng Trường Khai phóng Trực tuyến OpenEdu (dành cho người tự học); Sáng lập Tomorrow Leaders Academy (dành cho Sinh viên đại học); và Sáng lập PLEMS Education (dành cho Học sinh phổ thông).
Song song với vai trò lãnh đạo, nghiên cứu, giảng dạy, diễn thuyết và viết báo, Ông cũng là người khởi xướng và xây dựng 05 tủ sách thiết yếu (mua bản quyền, tổ chức biên dịch và xuất bản) nhằm phục vụ cho các nhóm -
Iona Grey
Iona Grey has a degree in English Literature and Language from Manchester University, an obsession with history and an enduring fascination with the lives of women in the twentieth century. She has three grown up daughters and lives in the rural North West of England with her husband and two cats. She is the award-winning author of Letters to the Lost and The Glittering Hour. Her third novel will be coming out in the US in August 2024. You can find on instagram as @ionagrey and at www.ionagrey.co.uk.
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Rosie Thomas
Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Published since 1982 as Rosie Thomas, she has written fourteen best-selling novels, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 1985 with Sunrise, and in 2007 with Iris and Ruby.
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Janey is an adventurer and once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Pe -
Kavery Nambisan
Kavery Nambisan is a novelist from India. She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India. Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.
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She spent her early years in Madikeri. She studied medicine in St. John's Medical College, Bangalore from 1965 and then studied surgery at the University of Liverpool, England, where she obtained the FRCS qualification. She worked as a surgeon in various parts of rural India before moving to Lonavala to start a free medical centre for migrant labourers.
Nambisan works as surgeon and medical advisor at the Tata Coffee Hospital in Kodagu, Karnataka, and is the Chief Medical Officer for Tata Coffee.
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Nguyên Phong
Giáo sư John Vũ – Nguyên Phong, là một nhà khoa học nổi tiếng ở Mỹ, đứng trong Top 10 người sáng tạo nhất thế giới (mà đứng đầu là Bill Gates và Steve Jobs). Ông chính là người dịch tác phẩm nổi tiếng Hành trình về Phương Đông, một trong những tác phẩm hay nhất về phương Đông từ trước đến nay. Giáo sư John Vũ cũng là một người rất quan tâm đến khoa học công nghệ, với trên 10.000 bài viết đã được đăng trên blog Science-Tecnology.
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Ông sinh năm 1950, tên thật là Vũ Văn Du trong một gia đình đông con. Cha ông là một dược sĩ, y sĩ có tầm và có tâm, đóng góp rất lớn cho nền y học nước nhà. Năm 1968, ông rời quê hương sang Hoa Kỳ để bắt đầu cuộc hành trình học hành đầy gian nan, vất vả. Tại đây ông tốt nghiệp ngành điện toán và sinh vật học cùng t -
Gary Thomas
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Alex Michaelides
Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel and was the biggest-selling debut in the world in 2019. It spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-breaking forty-nine countries. Alex lives in London.
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Geoffrey Archer
Geoffrey Archer is a fiction writer from London. He specialises in military adventures and spy thrillers and created the character Sam Packer.
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Nicholas Booth
Nicholas Booth is a British author and broadcaster. Starting out as a science writer for national newspapers, he later worked in television and mobile publishing. Now he writes about unusual characters and unlikely events from history. His biography of the double agent Eddie Chapman, Zigzag, was highly acclaimed and will be made into a film. The Thieves of Threadneedle Street published in the U.S. by Pegasus Books is out now as a paperback. It was a pick of the week by Publishing News and a highlight of the season by The New York Times. Born in Cheshire in 1964, Nick lives there with his wife and their kittens.
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Marita van der Vyver
Marita van der Vyver is the author of a dozen novels, a collection of short stories, two collections of humorous essays, picture books for children, many short stories and essays in anthologies, and regular columns in newspapers and magazines. Her books have been published in English, Dutch and German, and her first novel, published in English as Entertaining Angels, became a bestseller and was translated into twelve languages. She lives in France with her family.
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Marita van der Vyver is die skrywer van ’n tiental romans, ’n bundel kortverhale, twee versamelings van humoristiese essays, prenteboeke vir kleuters, talle kortverhale en essays in versamelbundels, en gereelde rubrieke in koerante en tydskrifte. Haar boeke word deurgaans in Engels -
E.V. Thompson
aka James Munro (Not this James Munro).
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E V Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy before joining Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become a full-time award-winning writer. -
Murray Smith
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Ashley Hope Pérez
When I’m not reading, writing, or teaching, I hang out with my sons, Liam Miguel and Ethan Andrés. In the scraps of time that remain, I also like to run (I did the Houston Marathon in 2007 and the Chicago Marathon in 2009), bake (but let’s don’t revive the “Cookie Girl” nickname, please), watch movies, and collage.
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My novels are WHAT CAN'T WAIT, THE KNIFE AND THE BUTTERFLY, and OUT OF DARKNESS, a 2016 Printz honor book and named one of BOOKLIST's "50 Best YA Books of All Time." THE NEW YORK TIMES called it a "layered tale of color lines, love and struggle." OUT OF DARKNESS has been banned and removed in many school districts as a result of coordinated attacks against youth access to diverse books. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/ashleyhope -
Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. His extensively researched books included such page-turners as The Chapman Report (1960), about human sexuality; The Prize (1962), a fictional behind-the-scenes account of the Nobel Prizes; The Man, about a black man becoming president of the U.S. in the 1960s; and The Word (1972), about the discovery of a new gospel.
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Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois. Wallace grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.
Wallace began selling stories to magazines when he was a teenager. In World War II Wallace served in the Frank Capra unit in Fort Fox along with Theodor Seuss Geisel - more popularly known as Dr Seuss - a -
James Conrad
James Conrad is originally from Minnesota and currently divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, New York. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his M.F.A. from the Columbia Writing Program. His poetry has appeared in such periodicals as The James White Review, Fruit, and Allegheny Review, and his fiction has appeared in Tin House.
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William Gladstone
William Gladstone majored in Spanish literature at Yale University and cultural anthropology at Harvard University. He also received an advanced degree in literature from the University of Salamanca in Spain. William has worked at the highest levels of book publishing, and has been involved in the creation of several digital publishing enterprises. He travels extensively throughout the world, assisting authors and book publishers. He resides in Cardiff, California.
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Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut.
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Charlie Owen
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Charlie Owen enjoyed a thirty-year career in the police service, serving with two forces in the Home Counties and London, reaching the rank of Inspector. He recently commenced a second career in the security services department of an investment bank. Charlie Owen is married with six children.
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Diney Costeloe
Encouraged by my publisher father, I have been writing all my life. When I was five, he took my first effort to his office and brought it back in a cardboard cover with the label, 'Tom's Party'written by Diney, published by Daddy.
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I've never looked back and always have some writing on the go.
To date I have written 10 romantic novels under the name of Diney Delancey (I liked the shape of the name and it sounded like a romantic novelist) and four novels as Diney Costeloe.
All are also in large print and several recently published as e-books.
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Adam Hamdy
I'm a Sunday Times and international bestselling author and screenwriter.
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I write topical, thought-provoking novels that aim to entertain, and I love lived research, so the events in my books are often inspired by real events.
Before I became a professional writer I was a strategy consultant and advised global businesses in a variety of sectors. I co-founded Capital Crime and am now on the advisory board. I'm also on the board of ITW. I enjoy rock climbing, skiing, sailing and competitive shooting.
I live in Mauritius with my wife and our three children.
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Rob Anderson
ABOUT CAPTAIN ROB
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From his early days as a deck boy prowling the waters of the world, on ships of dubious safety and cleanliness, he worked his way up to Captain by 29 years old. Captain Rob has always attracted trouble and adventure!
Rob was away at sea for stints of 6 months or more at a time. During this he used to write and draw picture books of his travels for his two young daughters.
"When the Ship Hits the Fan" is his first book of short stories released in July 2020 and this is just a short sample of the fun and shenanigans he has enjoyed in a long, salty sea career.
While he has "swallowed the anchor", Rob enjoys a semi-quiet life with a bunch of high performance motorcycles on a farm in Victoria surrounded by rolling hills, wildlife, -
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский) was a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era. He is best known for his renowned novel How the Steel Was Tempered on the Russian Civil War.
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Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is one of Britain's most highly regarded and popular actors, and received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011. Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across Film, Television, Theatre and Radio. Her first big television role was in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade in the early 1960s. She has directed and acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
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Following the death of her husband, John Thaw, she wrote a memoir of their marriage, The Two of Us, which was a no. 1 bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year. Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me, also a bestseller, was published in 2007. She lives in London and France. -
Peter Murphy
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Mark Ellis
Former barrister and businessman from Wales. Author of 6 books in the Frank Merlin WW2 detective series:
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Princes Gate (1) now retitled The Embassy Murders
Stalin’s Gold (2) now retitled In The Shadows Of The Blitz
Merlin At War (3) now retitled The French Spy
A Death In Mayfair (4)
Dead In The Water (5)
Death Of An Officer (6)
Ellis has also written a short history, Boom Time: True Crime in WW2 London
Merlin 3 was nominated for a CWA Dagger
‘Must-read for murder mystery lovers’ Daily Mail
‘Masterly….compelling’ Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts'
‘Unputdownable’ WW2 historian Robert Lyman
‘Dead In The Water is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I’ve read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots an -
Sam Bourne
Sam Bourne is the literary pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning British journalist and broadcaster. He has written a weekly column for The Guardian since 1997, having previously served as the paper's Washington correspondent. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The New Republic, and The Jewish Chronicle, and he presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary-history series The Long View.
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For nearly two decades he has covered the Middle East conflict, and in 2002 he chaired a three-day dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, which was sponsored by The Guardian. The participants in that meeting went on to broker the 2003 Geneva Accord.
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Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with the first published use of the term "hundredth monkey" in his 1979 book, Lifetide. It is a hypothesis that aroused both interest and ire in the scientific community and continues to be a topic of discussion over a quarter century later.
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He was born in Johannesburg as Malcolm Lyall-Watson. He had an early fascination for nature in the surrounding bush, learning from Zulu and !Kung bushmen. Watson attended boarding school at Rondebosch Boys' High -
Yun Jung-eun
Yun Jung-eun is the author of more than ten books, including Live the Way You Want, Even If I Don't Know How to Be an Adult and To Travel or to Love. She believes that writing is self-reflection, a close examination of emotions; to write is to connect.
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Yun hosts the podcast The Path of Books with Jungeun Yun. Her debut novel, Marigold Mind Laundry, has been a top-five bestseller in Korea, and is now available in English translation. She lives in Korea.
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Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow (born January 20, 1971 in Frodsham, Cheshire, England) is an English singer, pianist, songwriter, bandleader and producer. He is a member of the pop group Take That, and was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1990s, penning no fewer than 16 hit singles during the decade. Barlow had 2 #1's and 5 further Top 40 UK Singles as a solo singer in the final half of the 1990s alone. He is also a 4 time recipient of the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards.
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Bryce Courtenay
Arthur Bryce Courtenay, AM was a South African-Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One.
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Thomas E. Levy
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Michael Dobbs
Michael Dobbs was born on the same day, in the same hour as Prince Charles in 1948.
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He is the son of nurseryman Eric and his wife Eileen Dobbs and was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford University. After graduating in 1971 he moved to the United States.
In the USA he attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, which he funded by a job as feature writer for the Boston Globe, where he worked as an editorial assistant and political feature writer from 1971 to 1975.
He graduated in 1975 with an M.A., M.A.L.D., and PhD in nuclear defence studies. His doctoral thesis was published as SALT on the Dragon's Tail. In 2007 he returned to Tufts where he gave the Alumni Saluta -
Maya Arad
מאיה ערד נולדה בראשון לציון בכ"ח בטבת תשל"א, 25 בינואר 1971 להוריה טובה ויוסף ערד. גדלה והתחנכה בקיבוץ נחל עוז ובראשון לציון. לאחר לימודי יסוד ותיכון בראשון לציון התגייסה לצה"ל ושירתה במדור הסברה של חיל החינוך, בו פגשה את רויאל נץ. מאיה למדה בלשנות ולימודים קלאסיים לתואר ראשון באוניברסיטת תל אביב ובלשנות לדוקטורט באוניברסיטת לונדון. לימדה באוניברסיטאות שונות, ביניהן הארוורד, ז'נבה וסנקט-פטרבורג. ספרה "מקום אחר ועיר זרה" זיכה אותה בפרס משרד החינוך ליצירת ביכורים, נבחר לחמישיית המועמדים הסופית לפרס ספיר לשנת 2005 והועלה כמחזה בתיאטרון הקאמרי (בבימוי אלדד זיו ומוסיקה מאת אלון אולארצ'יק). כיום מאיה מלמדת באוניברסיטת סטנפורד. נשואה לרויאל נץ ואם לשתי בנות.
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Linda Joyce
Amazon Best Selling author and multiple RONE Award Finalist Linda Joyce writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction featuring assertive females and the men who can’t resist them. She lives with her very patient husband in metro-Atlanta, where they are dog parents to Jake, Max, and Sugar.
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Linda’s addicted to Cajun food and sushi. She's learning Kanji. Sporting Clays shooting is her newest hobby.
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A.J. Hoge
AJ Hoge is the world’s best known English coach. More than 1 million people to date across 16 countries have connected with his better way to teach and easier way to learn English as a second language. His programs accelerate the learning process by bypassing the traditional methods of textbooks, grammar drills, and classrooms to focus on intuitive learning through strategic storytelling and highly effective interactive exercises.
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While AJ’s pioneering TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) methodology has captured the attention of language educators and students worldwide, his most impactful work is at the nexus of career development and English language fluency. AJ’s decade-long interest and studies in the personal development field -
Chu Lai
Đại tá, nhà văn Chu Lai có tên khai sinh là Chu Văn Lai, sinh ngày 5 tháng 2 năm 1946, tại xã Hưng Đạo, huyện Phù Tiên, tỉnh Hưng Yên, hiện ở Hà Nội. Ông là đảng viên Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam, hội viên Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam (từ năm 1980).
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Ông là con trai của nhà viết kịch Học Phi. Trong chiến tranh Việt Nam ông công tác trong đoàn kịch nói Tổng cục Chính trị rồi trở thành chiến sĩ đặc công hoạt động trong vùng Sài Gòn. Sau 1973, ông về làm trợ lý tuyên huấn Quân khu 7. Đến cuối năm 1974 ông tham dự trại sáng tác văn học Tổng cục Chính trị và sau đó học tại Trường Viết văn Nguyễn Du khóa 1. Sau khi tốt nghiệp, ông biên tập và sáng tác cho Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Nhà văn Chu Lai còn viết một số kịch bản sân khấu, kịch bản phim và tham gia đóng -
Bibek Debroy
Bibek Debroy was an Indian economist, who served as the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He was also the Chairman of the Finance Ministry's 'Expert Committee for Infrastructure Classification and Financing Framework for Amrit Kaal'. Debroy has made significant contributions to game theory, economic theory, income and social inequalities, poverty, law reforms, railway reforms and Indology among others. From its inception in January 2015 until June 2019, Mr. Debroy was a member of the NITI Aayog, the think tank of the Indian Government. He was awarded the Padma Shri (the fourth-highest civilian honour in India) in 2015.
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Bibek Debroy's recent co-authored magnum opus, Inked in India, stands distinguished -
Hoàng Nam Tiến
Hoàng Nam Tiến, nguyên là Chủ tịch FPT Software, FPT Telecom, Tập đoàn FPT. Hiện ông là Phó chủ tịch Hội đồng trường - Trường Đại học FPT, phụ trách hoạt động đào tạo sau đại học.
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Gia nhập FPT năm 1993, ông Tiến làm việc tại đây liên tục trong 30 năm và được coi là một nhân tố quan trọng góp phần vào sự thành công của Tập đoàn. Ông được biết tới là một nhà quản trị, một chuyên gia công nghệ, một cố vấn trong hoạt động khởi nghiệp, một nhà giáo và một diễn giả được yêu thích. -
Barry Cryer
Cryer was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Educated at Leeds Grammar School, he studied English literature at the University of Leeds.
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After appearing in University revue, Cryer was offered a week's work at the Leeds City Varieties theatre, home of The Good Old Days, which became the longest-running television entertainment show in the world. Cryer left university after learning his first-year results and travelled to London. After impressing impresario Vivian Van Damm, Cryer began as the bottom billing act at the Windmill Theatre in London, a theatre which showed comedy acts in between nude tableau shows.
However, Cryer suffered severely from eczema and, after several periods in hospital, was released from his contract by Va -
Bo Burnette
Bo Burnette lives and breathes stories and finds adventures everywhere. He has several books with his name on their covers, including World War II biography Denver and the Doolittle Raid, middle-grade mystery The Lighthouse Thief, and the short story "Finding Viola."
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His latest project is The Reinhold Chronicles, a trilogy of medieval adventure stories. Bo makes his home in the state of Georgia, halfway between the soaring mountains and the rolling sea. -
Bill Adler
Bill Adler pursued his goal of being the P.T. Barnum of books by conceptualizing, writing, editing, compiling and hustling hundreds of them — prompting one magazine to anoint him “the most fevered mind” in publishing.
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Mr. Adler achieved early success by collecting and publishing letters children had written to President John F. Kennedy. He followed up with children’s letters to Smokey Bear, Santa Claus, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and President Barack Obama, among many others.
He helped popularize novels written by political, entertainment and sports celebrities, supplying ghostwriters and even plots. He signed up beauty queens to write diet and exercise books.
As an agent, his clients included Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Howard Cose -
Doo Vandenis
Là một bạn trẻ thuộc thế hệ gen Z, học Công nghệ thông tin và đam mê viết truyện, Doo Vandenis được biết đến là tác giả của những tác phẩm trinh thám bí ẩn hấp dẫn và đầy cuốn hút.
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Cô cũng hoạt động năng nổ trên các trang web sáng tác văn học và tác phẩm do cô viết được đông đảo bạn trẻ Việt Nam yêu mến và đánh giá cao. Những câu chuyện của Doo Vandenis thường xoay quanh những tình huống khó khăn, những bí mật được giấu kín, cuộc chiến giữa thiện – ác, và cả những cú “twist” ngoạn mục, khiến độc giả không thể rời mắt khỏi trang sách.
Các manh mối được cô cài cắm khéo léo, mỗi trang sách mở ra là người đọc đang vén một lớp rèm của bí ẩn, để rồi đến cuối cùng, mọi người đều phải thốt lên: “Ồ, hóa ra là vậy”. -
Trần Dần
Trần Dần tên thật là Trần Văn Dần, là nhà thơ, nhà văn Việt Nam. Ông được đánh giá là người cách tân trong thơ cả về hình thức (với lối thơ bậc thang) lẫn tư tưởng (đa diện, triết lý...)
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Tác phẩm:
Chiều mưa trước cửa (Thơ - 1943);
Hồn xanh dị kỳ (Thơ - 1944);
Người người lớp lớp (Truyện dài - 1954);
Nhất định thắng (Thơ - 1956);
Cách mạng tháng Tám (1956);
Đêm núm sen (Tiểu thuyết - 1961, chưa xuất bản);
Jờ Joạcx (Thơ - 1963, xuất bản di cảo);
Những ngã tư và những cột đèn (Tiểu thuyết - 1964, xuất bản năm 2011);
Một ngày cẩm phả (Tiểu thuyết - 1965, chưa xuất bản);
Con trắng (Thơ - hồi ký - 1967);
177 cảnh (Hùng ca lụa - 1968);
Động đất tâm thần (Nhật ký - thơ - 1974);
Thơ không lời - Mây không lời (Thơ - họa - 1978);
Bộ tam Thiên Thanh - 77 - Ngày ngày -
Robert Rotstein
Robert Rotstein is an entertainment attorney with over thirty years experience in the industry. He’s represented all of the major motion picture studios and many well-known writers, producers, directors, and musicians. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Matt McCarthy
Matt McCarthy is an assistant professor of medicine at Cornell and author of Superbugs (2019), The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly (2015), and Odd Man Out (2009).
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Adam Khoo
Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and peak performance specialist. A self-made millionaire by the age of 26, he is the Executive Chairman of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group Pte Ltd, one of Asia’s largest training & education companies.
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Adam has authored 13 books spanning the topics of academic mastery, personal development, parenting, finance and entrepreneurship. These titles have been consistently placed on the national best-sellers list and been translated into six foreign language.
“I write books because I want to leave a legacy of my personal experiences, and through that, help people.” - Adam Khoo -
晚情 WanQing Vãn Tình
Văn Tình là một trong số ít nữ tác giả trẻ người Trung Quốc đi sâu vào khai thác mối quan hệ giữa bản thân, gia đình và cuộc sống.
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Với ngòi bút tả thực, giọng văn sắc sảo, chiêm nghiệm về cuộc đời sâu sắc và tinh tế, các tác phẩm của Văn Tình đều được coi là hành trang cho các bạn trẻ trong cuộc sống hiện đại.
Sách của Văn Tình sẽ đưa bạn phiêu lưu vào thế giới của những người phụ nữ trưởng thành: sự thật về tình yêu, hôn nhân, hạnh phúc, công việc – cuộc sống không phải chuỗi ngày mộng mơ, mà là những tháng ngày phụ nữ biết mình, sống có trách nhiệm với cuộc đời chính mình.
Cô đã cho ra mắt rất nhiều tác phẩm Best Seller, thu về cho mình một lượng fan rất lớn, những tác phẩm của cô đều được các bạn độc giả trẻ đón nhận rất nồng nhiệt.
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Judith Lennox
Aka Judith Lennox-Smith
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Varsha Seshan
Varsha Seshan is a writer of to-do lists, emails, and detailed notes to self. In between all that, she writes stories, mainly for children.
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Awards and Shortlists
- Highlights Foundation Full Scholarship Awardee 2024
- Shortlisted for the AG-BLF Book Prize for Children's Fiction 2023
- Author of a Parag Honour Book 2022
- Shortlisted for the Neev Book Award 2021
- Finalist for the Singapore Book Award 2019
- First runner-up for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2018
- Winner of the Juggernaut Travel Writing Contest 2018
- Winner of the Chanakya Award for Communicator of the Year (Literature) 2018
- Shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2016
- Second runner-up for the Parents and Kids Choice Awards 2014 -
Dương Thu Hương
Dương Thu Hương (b. 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Formerly a member of Vietnam's communist party, she was expelled from the party in 1989, and has been denied the right to travel abroad, and was temporarily imprisoned for her writings and outspoken criticism of corruption in the Vietnamese government.
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Born in 1947 in Thai Binh a province in northern Vietnam, Dương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of “The War Against the Americans". Dương spent the next seven years of the war in the jungles and tunnels of Binh Tri Thien,