James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author and most trusted storyteller. He has created many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, and I Funny.
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories.
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer, and the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. He coined the term ‘cyberspace’ in 1982, and popularized it in his first novel, NEUROMANCER (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.
Michael Crichton was a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. His literary works are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres, and heavily feature technology.
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.
Larry Niven is the author of Ringworld, the co-author of The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer, the editor of the Man-Kzin War series, and has written or co-authored over 50 books.
Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction.
A former criminal defense lawyer, Jens Lapidus made his author’s debut in 2006 with Easy Money, one of Sweden’s most talked about and bestselling novels of the 21st century.
George Raymond Richard Martin is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer.
