Aka J.W. Rider was an American author of crime novels. He was born in New York, New York to John and Caroline (Royale) Stevens. His novels include Go Down Dead (1966), Way Uptown in Another World (1971…
Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series, Bored to Death (HBO) and Blunt Talk (STARZ). In the late '90s and…
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfi…
Probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish Heroin addicts, Trainspotting (1993), Welsh focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. All of his novels are set in hi…
Lawrence Block has been writing crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century. He has published in excess (oh, wretched excess!) of 100 books, and no end of short stories.
George Vincent Higgins was a United States author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels.
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the trainees…
Henri Lœvenbruck est né en 1972 à Paris, dans le XIIᵉ arrondissement. Ses parents, tous deux professeurs d’anglais et ayant vécu au Pays de Galles, lui transmettent dès son plus jeune âge leur amour p…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
David Keenan is an author and critic based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has been a regular contributor to The Wire magazine for the past twenty years. His debut novel, This Is Memorial Device, was publish…
Enfant discret, Maxime Chattam grandit en région parisienne. Il n'est pas particulièrement brillant à l'école mais se passionne pour le cinéma. À quatorze ans, après avoir regardé le film Stand by Me,…
Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty-two y…
Kiko Amat (1971) nació en Sant Boi de Llobregat, en la periferia barcelonesa. Su padre era rugbista, y su madre, auxiliar del manicomio local. Abandonó los estudios a los diecisiete años para ser mod,…
Comenzó a trabajar en redacciones de varios medios y después pasó a ser freelance para medios como JotDown, XL Semanal, Gatopardo o El Mundo. Realizó reportajes sobre el narcotráfico en Galicia, el g…
