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Jay McInerney

The author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine, Jay McInerney is a regular contributor to New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent, and Corriere della Sera. His short fiction has apeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy and Granta. In 2006, Time magazine cited his 1984 deb....[more]

Andrew Lownie

Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, which celebrated its 31st anniversary on April 13, 2010. He was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Mr. Penzler was the founder ....[more]

Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson is a professor of English at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has written several biographies of prominent writers and has contributed essays to numerous reference works. He lives in Cape May, NJ.

Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English author who wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, books concerning social criticism, and was considered one of the “angry young men” of the 1950s. Moreover, as of 2008 The Times ranked him 9th on their list of 50 greatest B....[more]

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]

Robert Bloch

John Buchan

John Buchan, His Excellency The Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940) Buchan was the first child of John Buchan and Helen Jane Buchan. He was born in Perth, Scotland and raised in Kikcaldy, spending many summer holidays with his grandparents in the Scottish Borders. Buchan won a scho....[more]

Fiction, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Religion

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England, in 1874. He began his education at St Paul's School, and later went on to study art at the Slade School, and literature at University College in London. Chesterton wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as works of social and literary criticism. Among his most notabl....[more]

Robert B. Parker

Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Sports & Recreation

Robert Brown Parker is a novelist and educator. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1932. Parker earned a B.A. from Colby College in 1954, served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1954 to 1954, and then returned to earn an M.A. from Boston University in 1957. Parker received his Ph.D. from Northwes....[more]