Posted on 08 June 2011 by RK
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is a popular American novelist. She is credited to have remodel the way detective fictions are written. She is noted for transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel.
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Posted on 15 September 2010 by admin
(15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976)
Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Devon, United Kindom, Agatha Christie needs no introduction. The youngest of three children, Agatha was initially home schooled by her mother and a series of governesses. She trained to be a singer and pianist but due to her shy nature she did not make a career of it. Duing World War 1 she worked as a nurse and then went on to work in a pharmacy; many attribute the use of poison in her novels to her experience with drugs and medicine. On Christmas Eve in 1914, Agatha married an aviator, Archibald Christie. They divorced in 1928.
Agatha started writing her first novel as a result of a challenge issued by her elder sister Madge. It was rejected by 6 publishers and took 5 years to be published.In 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was finally published and her use of poison in the mystery found mention in the Pharmaceutical Journal. Agatha met her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan in Baghdad in 1930. For the next 30 years she would often accompany him on digs and her experiences were reflected in her autobiographical, Come, Tell me how you Live.
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(15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938)
Born in Hoogly, West Bengal, Sarat Chandra spent the first half of his life in poverty. He lived with his uncle in Bhagalpur and the place had a profound influence on his work. It was in Bhagalpur that Sarat Chandra wrote the novel Devdas. After his parents death, poverty forced Sarat Chandra to leave his studies and in 1903 he left to work as a clerk in Rangoon. On the eve of his departure, he submitted a short story under his uncle’s name. The story won the first prize and was published. This encourages Sarat Chandra to keep writing and soon his popularity led to an improvement in his financial situation. Sarat often wrote about the evils that plagued society (though he never consciously adopted a reformist agenda) and was a disciple of Swami Vivekananda. He died of liver cancer in 1938.
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Posted on 09 August 2010 by admin
Born on August 9, 1949 in New York, Kellerman is the award winning author of many suspense novels. Most of his novels star the fictional child psychologist, Alex Delaware and reflect his own training in psychology. Like Delaware, Jonathan received at Ph.D. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the treatment of children. In 1985 he won the Edgan Award for the first Alex Delaware novel, When the Bough Breaks. Kellerman has also co-authored many mystery novels with his wife Faye Kellerman.
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Born as Barbara Ruth Greenberg in Boston on August 9, 1945, Barbara Delinsky is a best selling romance-mystery novelist. In High School Barbara was thrown out out of an English Hons class as she couldn’t keep up. She took lessons in Ballroom dancing, piano and flute. After her first son was born, she took loads of pictures of him and that inspired her to begin working as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. In time, Barbara realised that she was better at writing than at photography. In her own words, “I became an actual writer by fluke. My twins were four when, by chance, I happened on a newspaper article profiling three female writers. Intrigued, I spent three months researching, plotting, and writing my own book — and it sold.”
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Posted on 09 August 2010 by admin
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Posted on 03 August 2010 by admin
P.D. James
Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James of Holland Park, the eldest daughter of an Inland Revenue official, was born on August 3, 1920 in Oxford, UK. Best known for her crime fiction novels featuring Scotland Yard policeman Adam Dalgliesh, she has won many awards and is also a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, UK. A government servant, James started writing in the mid – fifties and her first novel, Cover her Face, was published in 1962. In 1999 she received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long term achievement and in 2008 she entered the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame. She has served as a Governor for the BBC and Chairman of the Literature Advisory Panel at both the Arts Council of England (1988-92) and the British Council (1988-93). Some of her famous works include:
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(August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003)
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Born to Jewish immigrants from Poland in Baltimore, USA, Leon wrote his first operetta at the age of six, inspired by the death of his dog. Interestingly the author known for his in depth research and historical novels, was unable to pass high school as he failed in English three times! After serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War 2, he starting writing for newspapers and magazines. Drawing on his world war 2 experiences he wrote his first novel, Battle Cry, depicting the toughness of the US Marines. According to sources, he went to Israel in the 1950s at the behest of a PR firm to create a novel. Thus was born Exodus, that was translated into 50 languages and later made into a movie. He died at the age of 78, of renal failure.
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Posted on 21 July 2010 by admin
(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
Pulitzer and Nobel prize winning American author, Ernest Hemingway is known for his great characterisation and simple prose style. After graduating from high school in 1917, Hemingway worked briefly as a reporter. He then became an ambulance driver during the first world war. His experiences during these days became the basis for his classic novel, A Farewell to Arms. His first novel however was the Sun also rises, written in 1924.
Hemingway was married four times before he finally committed suicide in 1961.
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Born in Philadelphia on July 21, 1956, Michael Connelly decided to become a writer when he read the works of Raymond Chandler during his college years. The love for mystery novels and crime fiction was however, instilled by his mother, who was an avid reader. Connelly went on to become the crime reporter for Los Angeles Times. Three years into his beat, he began writing his first novel starring LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. His debut novel won an Edgar award for the Best First novel and since then he has received a series of awards. Between 2003 and 2004 he was the President of the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly’s books have been translated into 35 languages.
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MARSHALL McLUHAN
(July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980)
“The Medium is the Message.” How often have we heard this expression? Today is the birth anniversary of teh Canadian educator and professor of English literature who coined this phrase. Marshall McLuhan is also credited with the term “global village,” and continues to influence media discourse even three decades after his death.
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Posted on 09 July 2010 by Sanga
Sara Paretsky
American author of detective fiction, she is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced her detective V.I. Warshawski, the protagonist of all but two of her bestselling novels. She has served with then-state senator Obama on the board of Thresholds, which serves Chicago’s mentally ill homeless and has mentored teens in Chicago’s most troubled schools. Not only has her work broken barriers, but she has also helped open doors for other women. In 1986 she created Sisters in Crime, a worldwide organization to support women crime writers.
Some of her famous books are:
Indemnity Only (1982)
Guardian Angel (1992)
Windy City Blues (1995)
Sisters On the Case (2007)
John W Campbell
American science fiction writer, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction. From 1938 until his death in 1971 he was the editor from of the science fiction magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In 1996 he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were named in his honor.
Some of his famous books are:
The Mightiest Machine (1947)
From Unknown Worlds (1948)
The Planeteers (1966)
The Space Beyond (1976)
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Posted on 02 July 2010 by Sanga
Magnus Pym, intelligence agent for the British, visits London after the news of his father Rick’s death. He is supposed to return to Vienna, where he and his wife Mary are currently stationed. But instead he sends his luggage on home without him. When the suitcase arrives, without Magnus, British intelligence is left to wonder whether or not Magnus has defected, taking with him information which is beyond valuable, and jeopardizing the lives of his fellow agents and intelligence network in place in Czechoslovakia. But Magnus is not behind the iron curtain; rather, he’s in Devon, along the coast, in a home where he’s known as Mr. Canterbury, an identity he has been using for a while. This time, he’s there to tell his story, racing against time, waiting for his people to come get him and bring him in. He wants to leave a record of the truth, especially for his son, Tom. What he ends up with is the life of Magnus Pym from his childhood on, reflecting especially on his relationship with his father Rick, the ultimate con man, for whom the con never stops, not even with his only son.
This novel is as close to an autobiography readers will get from LeCarre. Although his years in British Intelligence have always given undeniable weight to his stories, this book has been roundly hailed as LeCarre’s finest. As with his other books, the life of a spy is definitely not heroic. Rather, Pym inhabits a world of duplicity and the mentally dysfunctional and over ambitious. His character is very convincing and for all his sometimes frivolous duplicity and conceit, readers will still root for him. In fact, this book is more of a spy character analysis than a spy novel.
In the hands of a lesser writer, this book could have been a big unorganized mess. But with LeCarre in charge, the story’s disparate elements are deftly woven together into a whole. Some readers may find the details a bit repetitive, but the energy of the language and richness of the tale more than make up for any weakness to make this a fast paced thriller.
Readers who marvel at character development will especially find this book rich with content. Narrated alternately by Pym and the other characters who are desperately seeking him, the storyline is told by characters reminiscing each others’ exploits. Bit by bit, readers will learn everything, but still remain helpless, unable to do anything but keeping going deeper and deeper through the complexity of the different lives and feelings as they are uncovered.
The text is oozing with innuendo, suggestion and ambiguity. And as far as storytelling goes, there is gripping suspense with character development that is truly epic. This is an unreal, yet most believable journey into the life of a spy. A must read!
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Posted on 01 July 2010 by Sanga
William L. DeAndrea
American mystery writer and columnist, he won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. His novels have been widely successful, and have featured different themes such as the wild west and espionage. His Matt Cobb mystery series drew on his experience working for a major American television network.
Some of his famous books are:
Killed in the Ratings
The Werewolf Murders
The Fatal Elixir
Unholy Moses
Patricia Brisco Matthews
American writer of gothic, romance and mystery novels. She wrote under the pen names P.A. Brisco, Patty Brisco, Pat A. Brisco, Pat Brisco and Patricia Matthews. She and her husband also collaborated on several romance and suspense novels using the pseudonyms Laura Wylie and Laurie Wylie.
Some of her famous books are:
Harold Jensen’s Hope Chest (1959)
The Crystal Window (1973)
Dance of Dreams (1983)
Touch of Terror (1995)
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Posted on 26 June 2010 by Sanga
Jennifer Archer
American author of young adult/teen fiction, women’s fiction and novels, her books typically have strong female protagonists, and have been nominated for numerous awards. Before becoming a full-time writer she worked in the fields of oil and gas accounting, real estate management, and the pharmacy and medical equipment industries. She is the author of eight published novels and three novellas, and has published numerous non-fiction works.
Some of her famous books are:
Body and Soul (1999)
The Me I Used to Be (2005)
Of Her Rocker (2006)
Annie on the Lam: A Christmas Caper (2007)
Colin Henry Wilson
Prolific British writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist, Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism, and other topics. His books on crime, ranging from encyclopedias to studies of serial killing show his deep ongoing interest in the life and times of Jack the Ripper.
Some of his famous works are:
The Outsider (1956)
Adrift in Soho (1961)
The Mind Parasites (1967)
Super Consciousness (2009)
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