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Danielle Steel: Drama Novels
The American novelist Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel, an author of several dramas and romantic books, is acclaimed for her drama novels which has sold over 500 million copies worldwide as of 2005. Most of her books were included in the New York Times Bestseller list. They remained there for about 390 consecutive weeks and more than 20 of them were adapted for television. Early Life an... [Read More]
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown is a controversial American author of thriller fiction, who is best known for his runaway bestsellers The Da Vinci Code (2003) and Angels and Demons (2000). His novels share his signature mix of scholarly puzzles, international intrigue, secret societies, and fast-paced action. He has interests in codes, cryptography, and keys, a recurring theme in his novels. Early life and educationBro... [Read More]
Ahmed Salman Rushdie: Life and Work
Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a noted Indian-British novelist and essayist who was (and still is) a target of assassination plots after his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), greatly offended the Islamic world. His work has touches of magic realism and historical fiction, with postcolonialism as their overriding theme. Rushdie focuses on the disruptions, connections, and migrations between ... [Read More]
Stephen King: Horror and Fantasy
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother bro... [Read More]
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Horror Writer
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He was of predominantly of British stock on both sides of his family, consumed by eccentricity. His mother keep his son from contact with the outside world. She treated him like a girl, and made him wear his hair long until the age of six. Lovecraft's father, named after the hero Winfield Scott, was a traveling salesman, who went mad,... [Read More]
Isaac Asimov: The Future of Humanity
One of the most common impressions of Asimov's fiction work is that his writing style is extremely unornamental. In 1980, SF scholar James Gunn wrote of I, Robot that: Except for two stories—"Liar!" and "Evidence"—they are not stories in which character plays a significant part. Virtually all plot develops in conversation with little if any action. Nor is there a gr... [Read More]
Anne Rice: The Enigma
Shelves are stacked with her chronicles never waning, constantly becharming new generation of readers. You will see different age groups picking up her novels; and yes, they are under the spell of the her Olympian ability to make darkness appealing and frisson liberating. Her novels were turned into movies, and once, adapted to the stage. Anne Rice's imagination introduced many readers to new char... [Read More]
Oriana Fallaci: Journalist, Interviewer and Author
More than being a journalist, she herself was an author. At the age of 77, Oriana Fallaci died in her own country in Florence, Italy. A woman of no fear, she has come face to face with so many known leaders and celebrities such as Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lech Wałęsa, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Fede... [Read More]
Anais Nin: Unabridged
“ We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”- Anais Nin Anais Nin led a double life. She was a bigamist sharing bed with two men Hugh Guiler and Rupert Pole. A woman who shared herself through her diaries and erotic novels, remarkably courageous to explore the sexuality in her writings, even in real life. She liberated herself through her journals that has inspi... [Read More]