Larry Collins
Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, he was educated at the Loomis Chaffee Institute in Windsor, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale as a BA in 1951. He worked in the advertising department of Procter and Gamble, in Cincinnati, Ohio, before being conscripted into the US Army. While serving in the public affairs office of the Allied Headquarters in Paris, from 1953-1955, he met Dominique Lapierre with whom he would write several best-sellers over 43 years.
He went back to Procter and Gamble and became the products manager of the new foods division in 1955. Disillusioned with commerce, he took to journalism and joined the Paris bureau of United Press International in 1956, and became the news editor in Rome in the following year, and later the
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In the early 1950s Lapierre was conscripted into the French army. After one year in a tank regiment, he was transferred to SHAPE headquarters to serve as an interpreter. There he met a young American Army corporal, Larry Collins, a Yale graduate and draftee. They became instant friends. When Collins was discharged he was offered a job with Procter & -
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Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
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Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.
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Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995.
He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director.
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James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal. -
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Oren has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history and foreign affairs, and is the author of the New York Times best-selling Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, Power, Faith and Fantasy, and Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which won the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Oren has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities in the Unit -
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David published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996; the feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. In total, David has published 52 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. David has also published seven novels for younger readers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more -
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Dominique Lapierre
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Julia Navarro
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Después de publicar varios libros de actualidad política como Nosotros, la transición; Entre Felipe y Aznar; La izquierda que viene, y Señora presidenta, se atrevió con la novela y consiguió un éxito sin precedentes en España. Su primer título, La Hermandad de la Sábana Santa, se situó durante semanas en los primeros puestos de las listas de ventas tanto en España como en el extranjero. La Biblia de barro y La sangre de los inocentes, sus siguientes novelas, también ambientadas en la Edad Media, afianzaron su prestigio entre la crítica y el público, sum -
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.
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Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen nació el 4 de enero de 1959 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. Es licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Zaragoza y desde 1985 reside en Alemania. Fue miembro del Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte. Considerado ya como uno de los narradores más destacados de su generación, es autor de tres libros de relatos: No ser no duele (1997), Los peces de la amargura (2006) y El vigilante del fiordo (2011), y de cinco novelas: Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005) y Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), títulos que han sido distinguidos con el Premio Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1997, el Premio Euskadi 2001, el XI Premio Mario Vargas Llosa NH, el Dulc
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Benjamin Black
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Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland. His father worked in a garage and died when Banville was in his early thirties; his mother was a housewife. He is the youngest of three siblings; his older brother Vincent is also a novelist and has written under the name Vincent Lawrence as well as his own. His sister Vonnie Banville-Evans has written both a children's novel and a reminiscence of growing up in Wexford.
Educated at a Christian Brothers' school and at St Peter's College in Wexford. Despite having intended to be a painter and an architect he did not attend university. Banville has described this as "A great mistake. I should have gone. I regret not taking that four years of getting drunk and falling in love. But -
Manuel Chaves Nogales
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than forty novels with two million copies sold. Before his writing career, he served at Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management, a background that inspired many of his story concepts. A two time Ironman triathlete, he enjoys running, biking, and hiking. Nicholas also loves traveling, especially to his cabin in Northern Minnesota where he weaves his tales. He lives in Iowa with his wonderful wife and their son and daughter.
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Santiago Posteguillo
Santiago Posteguillo is senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He is also president of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, and a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals English for Specific Purposes and Written Communication. His latest publications include Netlinguistics: Language, Discourse and Ideology in Internet (2003) and the recent Spanish Computing Dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English (2004).
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Santiago Posteguillo, filólogo, lingüista, doctor europeo por la Universidad de Valencia, es en la actualidad profesor titular en la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón y director de la sede en dicha universidad del Instituto Interunivers -
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Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi was born in Vitoria, Spain.
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She published in 2012 her first novel, The Immortal Collection, followed in 2014 by its second installment, The Sons of Adam, along with the historical novel Passage to Tahití.
In 2016 she released The Silence of the White City, the first volume of the Kraken Saga, a bestselling thriller series set in her hometown of Vitoria. The saga continued with The Rituals of Water (2017), The Lords of Time (2018), The Black Book of Hours (2022) and The Angel of the City (2023). In 2026, the sixth installment of the Kraken Saga will be published.
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Carmen Mola
Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero had published novels and worked as scriptwriters under their real names before coming together to write under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, which roughly translates as "Carmen's cool".
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The men, all in their 40s and 50s, denied choosing a female pseudonym to help sell the books. They had previously claimed in interviews and on their own website that Mola was a professor in her late 40s.
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