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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Patterson, James
1947 -

The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...

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Manchette, Jean-Patrick
1942 - 1995

Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French author credited for having revolutionised noir fiction in France. He was born in...

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Turow, Scott
1949 -

Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...

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