Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024

American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....

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Rudberg, Denise
1971 -

Denise Rudberg is dubbed the queen of Swedish chick lit, and she has scored commercial high points in Sweden as well as in...

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Banville, John
1945 -

John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the K...

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McClure, James
1939 - 2006

The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...

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