Sample of Authors
![Författarporträtt av Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa](images/writer/4943/wm_BR_4943_20141007134945_Large.jpg)
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
1963 -
The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of S...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ira Levin](images/writer/1020/616708968ee75fcdefaea6826f509eed118623e4f8630.jpg)
Levin, Ira
1929 - 2007
The American novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Ira Levin was born in Bronx in New York; he was the only child in the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Beckett, Simon](images/writer/5431/wm_BR_5431_20140321102231_Large.jpg)
Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
Further reading![Portrait image of Agatha Christie](images/writer/321/6197b895b0cf8c9a54b02a9946620bb1352e2052bd7bd.jpg)
Christie, Agatha
1890 - 1976
English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County....
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