Sample of Authors
![Portrait of Stieg Trenter](images/writer/1746/5f6cb03d81edc5364d44ad24b89b39b4fb3ea2ff3e0b1.jpg)
Trenter, Stieg
1914 - 1967
Stieg Ivar Trenter, born Stig Ivar Johansson, grew up in Farsta, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. His father owned a general...
Further reading![Portrait of Stella Rimington](images/writer/6007/609a506f343f51f817fbc5831a44ac8e8171d9613d4a0.jpg)
Rimington, Stella
1935 -
Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female...
Further reading![Portrait image of Leslie Charteris](images/writer/311/6197b6529fc651e202a260cc4b1e547d985ce3473c553.jpg)
Charteris, Leslie
1907 - 1993
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy...
Further reading![Portrait of Ngaio Marsh](images/writer/1134/609a9465d5f9aded0085dc2e0c883e1a24b969c84b4bd.jpg)
Marsh, Ngaio
1895 - 1982
The New Zealand author Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was born in Merivale, Christchurch. Her father was an immigrant English bank...
Further reading