Born March 7, 1964 on New Yorks Staten Island, Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writet. Regarded as one of the so called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. A self-proclaimed "moralist." Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. Read More

Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside...Read More

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939. She is the daughter of a forest entomologist, and spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec. She moved, at the age of seven, to Toronto. She studied at the University of Toronto, then took her masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962. Read More.

Born Helen Ford in Geelong in 1942, the eldest of six children and educated at Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School, The Hermitage Geelong and Melbourne University, Helen Garner has become one of Australia's most loved and revered authors... Read More

John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father, a cotton farmer and itinerant construction worker moved the family frequently, from town to town throughout the Deep South, settling in Southaven, Mississippi in 1967. Although his parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and insisted that he prepare himself for college...Read More

Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai, Formerly Bombay, on June 19, 1947. He went to school first in Bombay and then Rugby in England, before studying History at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company. After graduating, Rushdie lived with his family who had moved to Pakistan, and after a breif career in television...Read More

American writer John Updike, novelist, short story author and poet, is internationally reknown for his novels Rabbit, Run - 1960, Rabbit Redux - 1971, Rabbit Is Rich - 1981, and Rabbit At Rest - 1990...Read More

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) in 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga, Kannadiga parents hailing from Mangalore, Karnataka. He grew up in Mangalore and studied at Canara High School, then at St. Aloysius High School, where he completed his SSLC in 1990...Read More

Born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933, Charles (Jnr) McCarthy was the third of six children (the eldest son) born to Charles Joseph and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy. Rumour has it he renamed himself Cormac after the Irish King...Read More

According to Forbes Magazine 2006, J. K. Rowling is the first author to become a billionaire from writing. Her claim to fame is, of course, the Harry Potter series, which shot her out of the obscurity of single motherdom to super star status... Read More

Haruki Murakami has built an international almost cult like fan base because his stories move so seamlessly between the reality of his characters mundane life and a surreal existence only found deep within our own imagination...Read More

born in Connecticut in 1973, Stephenie's Family settled in Phoenix by the time she was four. The unusual spelling of her name was a gift from her father, Stephen ( + ie = me ). Though she has had her name spelled wrong on pretty much everything her entire life long, it does make it easier to google her now....Read More

John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February 1940, the elder of two children. His mother was a primary school teacher. His father was trained as an attorney, but practiced as such only intermittently; during the years 1941-45 he served with the South African forces in North Africa and Italy.  Read More.

Kate Grenville was born in Sydney, Australia. After completing an Arts degree at Sydney University she worked in the film industry (mainly as an editor) before living in the UK and Europe for several years and starting to write. Read More.

Born Monica Elizabeth Knight in Birmingham, England, in 1923 and brought up in a German-speaking household, Elizabeth undertook her early education in the English Midlands both at home and at a Quaker boarding school. She stayed there until the age of 17 when she began nursing studies in London. Read More.

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England into a family of physicians and scientists (his mother was a surgeon and his father a general practitioner). He earned his medical degree at Oxford University (Queen's College), and did residencies and fellowship work at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA. Read More.

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. As a Northern working class girl she was not encouraged to be clever. Her adopted father was a factory worker, her mother stayed at home. Read More.