Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer. Smith was born in 1979 as the son of a Swedish mother and an English father, and was brought up in London where he lives today. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. After [...]
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Jhumpa Lahiri
July 21, 2008 By OMB Staff
Jhumpa Lahiri (born Nilanjana Sudeshna on 11 July 1967) is an American author of Bengali Indian descent. Lahiri’s debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. Lahiri’s writing is characterized by [...]
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Rabih Alameddine
July 21, 2008 By OMB Staff
Rabih Alameddine (b. 1959) is a Lebanese American painter and writer. He was born in Jordan to Lebanese parents and has lived in Kuwait, Lebanon, England, and the United States. He began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. He is the author of two novels—Koolaids and I, the Divine—as well [...]
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Mario Spezi
July 21, 2008 By OMB Staff
Mario Spezi is an Italian journalist and author. He wrote the non-fiction, true crime book, The Monster of Florence with American author Douglas Preston. Additionally, he is credited by Preston for providing details used in the novel Brimstone. Spezi spent much of his career tracking the case of the notorious serial killer known as the [...]
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Douglas Preston
July 21, 2008 By OMB Staff
Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels alone, as well as some with Lincoln Child. He also has authored some non-fiction books, both alone and one with Italian author Mario Spezi. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, Preston began his writing career at the [...]
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Stephen King
July 18, 2008 By OMB Staff
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 to Donald Edwin and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When King was two years old, his father deserted the family when going to get a pack of cigarettes, leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The [...]
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Dean Koontz
July 18, 2008 By OMB Staff
Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. He is best-known for writing many successful novels that could broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but which also frequently incorporate elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller [...]
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Virginia Woolf
July 18, 2008 By OMB Staff
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works [...]
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Louisa May Alcott
July 18, 2008 By OMB Staff
Louisa May Alcott was a daughter of noted Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. Louisa’s father started the Temple School; her uncle, Samuel Joseph May, was a noted abolitionist. Though of New England parentage and residence, she was born in Germantown, which is currently part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She had three sisters: one [...]
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