Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment…
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional d…
Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic f…
Rex Todhunter Stout (1886–1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of de…
René Lodge Brabazon Raymond was born on 24th December 1906 in London, England, the son of Colonel Francis Raymond of the colonial Indian Army, a veterinary surgeon. His father intended his son to have…
Florida writer Gil Brewer was the author of dozens of wonderfully sleazy sex/crime adventure novels of the 1950's and 60's, including Backwoods Teaser and Nude on Thin Ice; some of them starring priva…
Alexandre Dumas (fils) (son) was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally re…
A fost bibliotecar la ARLUS (1945-1946). A absolvit Școala de Literatură și Critică Literară "Mihai Eminescu" (1950-1951). A lucrat ca redactor-șef adjunct la…
A scris poezii, nuvele, proză fantastică, scenarii de film, piese de teatru, memorii de călătorie și cărți pentru copii, fiind însă cunoscut ca autor de romane polițiste. A debutat ca licean în revista…
KARSTEN DUSSE, Jahrgang 1973, Rechtsanwalt, Studium in Bonn, Lausanne und Los Angeles. Nach erfolgreicher Tätigkeit als Drehbuch- und Sachbuchautor wurde sein Debütroman Achtsam morden zum meistverkau…
