George Michael Cohan was an American playwright, composer, lyricist, entertainer, actor, singer, dancer and producer. He is considered the father of American musical comedy.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); …
Marie Corelli (born Mary Mackay) was a best-selling British novelist of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, whose controversial works of the time often label her as an early advocate of the New Age move…
The detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Sco…
People best know American writer Anita Loos for her novels, especially Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925), which she later adapted for film; her many screenplays include The Girl from Missouri (1…
Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. A librarian, she married Profess…
Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, known professionally as Catherine Aird, was an English novelist. She was the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories. Her witt…
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 27 countries. In 2013, her latest novel, The Carrier, won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at th…
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon was always going to be a writer as, born in London, he was the son of Benjamin Leopold Farjeon who at the time was a well-known novelist whose other children were Eleanor Farj…
محمد صادق ,روائي مصري من مواليد 1987 صدرت روايته الأولي " طه الغريب " في عام 2010 ,ثم " بضع ساعات في يوم ما " عام 2012 , و في عام 2014 صدرت روايته الثالثة " هيبتا " التي احتلت قوائم الأكثر مبيعا منذ صد…
أصبح اسمه يتردد على استحياء في أوساط المؤلفين الشباب.. غيرت رواياته مفاهيم كثيرة لعقول الشباب.. اقترن اسمه بعالم الجن والعفاريت والمخطوطات القديمة والقتلة النفسيين وعالم الرعب.. إنه حسن الجندي المؤلف …
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
كاتبة وروائية مصرية، عمِلت كمضيفة طيران لسنوات طويلة، كتبت فى جريدة "الدستور" ومجلة "عين"، وتكتب بشكل دائم فى عدة مواقع إلكترونية، درست الإخراج السينمائي بقصر السينما بالقاهرة، وشاركت فى العديد من الأ…
William Fryer Harvey was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the macabre and horror genres. Among his best-known stories are "August Heat" and "The Beast with Five Fingers", described …
P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best kn…
