Anna Funder was born in Melbourne in 1966. She has worked as an international lawyer and a radio and television producer. Her book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, won the 2004 Samuel J…
Val Edward Kilmer was an American actor. Initially a stage actor, he found fame after appearances in comedy films Top Secret! (1984) and Real Genius (1985), and later in the military action film Top G…
Carolijn Visser (Leiden, 5 september 1956) is een Nederlandse schrijfster van reisverhalen. Ze bracht een groot deel van haar jeugd door in Middelburg, waar ze de hbs bezocht. Ze reist al jarenlang ov…
Kate is the USA Today-bsetselling author of many books of both historical and contemporary fiction. Under the name Katharine Swartz, she is the author of the Tales from Goswell books, a series of time…
Rainn Dietrich Wilson is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer and writer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom The Office, for which he earned three consecutiv…
Eoin Dempsey was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977. He grew up in the beautiful Dublin suburb of Dalkey, where he and his friends would jump into the icy waters of the Irish Sea (during summertime) to p…
CATE LINEBERRY is the author of "Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero" (coming June 20, 2017). She is also the author of "The Secret Rescue: An Untold …
Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter of the Danish television phenomenon The Killing which won various international awards and sold in more than a hundred countries. More rece…
I am fascinated by the stories clothes can tell about the people who made, sold and wore them. My latest non-fiction book is 'The Dressmakers of Auschwitz', revealing the lives and fates of a remarkab…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Sheila Sitalsing (1968) is an economist and journalist. She was a correspondent in Brussels for Elsevier, and chief editor economic and politics for the Volkskrant.
Alex Alvin grew up fascinated by history and felt connected to the past through stories of love and war. That fascination has translated into Alex’s books that explore how world events impact people a…
Author of New York Times best-selling War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love and forthcoming Into the Forest (September 7, 2021), Rebecca Frankel is a longtime editor and journalist. She…
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mu…
Lena Andrews is the author of Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II and an Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Po…
Rebecca Novack grew up in Colorado. She has a master's in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School and lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband and two young children.
