Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the…
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Robin Cook – 4 May 1940
Dr. Robert Brian “Robin” Cook (born May 4, 1940 in New York City)[1] is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on the New York Times Bestseller List. Several of…
Satyajit Ray – 2 May 1921. 23 April 1992
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত#িজৎ রা), listen ; (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist,…
Pascale Fonteneau – 29 April 1963
Pascale Fonteneau (born April 29, 1963) is a French-born journalist and novelist in Belgium.[1] The daughter of a French father and a German mother,[1] she was born in Fougères in Brittany, was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and lives in Brussels.[2] She was one of the founding members of Passa Porta, the international…
Ian Rankin – 28 April 1960
Ian Rankin, OBE, DL (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Born in Cardenden, Fife, Rankin was educated at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath and the University of Edinburgh, where he remained after graduation to work on a doctorate, which he did not complete, on Muriel Spark.[2] He has…
Lisa Unger – 26 April 1970
Lisa Unger (born April 26, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American author of contemporary fiction. Her novels have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list, have sold more than 1.7 million copies and have been translated into twenty-six languages.[1] Unger was born in New Haven, Connecticut but grew up in the Netherlands,…
David Morrell – 24 April 1943
David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian- American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages.[1] He also wrote the 2007-2008 Captain America comic book miniseries…
Sue Grafton – 24 April 1940
Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the ‘alphabet series’ (“A” Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said…
Ngaio Marsh – 23 April 1895 . 18 February 1982
Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ˈnaɪ.oʊ/; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. Internationally Marsh is known primarily for her creation Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who…
Janet Evanovich – 22 April 1943
Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie seller from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends…
John Mortimer – 21 April 1923 . 16 January 2009
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009)[1] was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London, the only child of Kathleen May (née Smith) and Clifford Mortimer, a barrister[2] who became blind in 1936, when he hit his head on the door frame of a London taxi,[3]…
Gladys Mitchell – 21 April 1901 . 27 July 1983
Gladys Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs. Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie. Feted during her life (called “the Great Gladys” by Philip Larkin), her work was largely neglected for…
Simon Beckett – 20 April 1960
Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, England) is a British journalist and author. His books, in particular the crime series around forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter, have sold 12 million of copies worldwide, and enjoyed particular success in Germany and Scandinavia. Simon Beckett was born on 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, UK, to…
Margaret Murphy – 14 April 1959
Margaret Murphy (born 14 April 1959) is a British crime writer. Murphy was born and brought up in Liverpool, Lancashire where she gained a degree in Environmental Biology at the University of Liverpool and later an MA with Distinction in Writing at Liverpool JMU, a course on which she now lectures. She has been a…
Bill Pronzini – 13 April 1943
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories.[1] William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California. He has been married three times. The first marriage was to…
Ernest Wilhelm Julius Bornemann – 12 April 1915 . 4 June 1995
Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (April 12, 1915 – June 4, 1995) was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist. All these diverse interests, he claimed, had a common root in his lifelong insatiable curiosity. From 1982 to 1986 he was president of the German Society for…
Liza Cody – 11 April 1944
Liza Cody (born in London on 11 April 1944) is an English crime fiction writer. She is the author of thirteen novels and many short stories. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. The entire Anna Lee series was adapted for television and broadcast in both the U.K….
Lew Wallace – 10 April 1827 . 15 February 1905
Lewis “Lew” Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a…
Jacques Futrelle – 9 April 1875 . 15 April 1912
Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as “The Thinking Machine” for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking…
Michele McPhee – 8 April 1970
Michele R. McPhee (born April 8, 1970)[1] is an American author, talk radio host, and journalist from in Boston, Massachusetts. Up until November 1, 2012, McPhee co-hosted the morning drive-time show on WRKO radio in Boston with Todd Feinburg, Feinburg and McPhee; the show was abruptly canceled on October 31 and station management said they were looking for another role at…
Robert Bloch – 5 April 1917 . 23 September 1994
Robert Albert Bloch (/blɑːk/; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote that “Despite my ghoulish reputation,…
Reginald Hill – 3 April 1936 . 12 January 2012
Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 1936 – 12 January 2012) was an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.[2] Hill was born to a “very ordinary”[3] family—his father was a professional footballer long before sportsmen earned riches—but began reading young. His mother was…
Edgar Wallace – 1 April 1875 . 10 February 1932
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left…
Luís Miguel Rocha – February 1976
Luis Miguel Rocha (Porto, February 1976) is a Portuguese writer who became bestseller New York Times in 2009 [1] (http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2009-08- 16 / mass-market paperback, / list.html). Humanities student was up to the 12th year. He began his professional life as a coach that was responsible for producing masses of TVI, at twenty years of age….
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay – 30 March 1899 . 22 September 1970
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শরিদn& বেnাপাধ,া-; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a Bengali writer. He was also actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. His most famous creation is the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi. He wrote different forms of prose: novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. However, his forte was short…
Jo Nesbo – 29 March 1960
Jo Nesbø (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈju ˈnɛsbø]; born 29 March 1960) is a Glass Key award winning Norwegian author and musician. As of March 2014 more than 3 million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway, and his work has been translated into over 40 languages, selling 23 million copies (2014). Nesbø is primarily…
Natsuhiko Kyogoku – 26 March 1963
Natsuhiko Kyogoku (京極 夏彦 Kyōgoku Natsuhiko, born March 26, 1963) is a Japanese mystery writer, who is a member of Ōsawa Office.[1] Three of his novels have been turned into feature films; Mōryō no Hako, which won the 49th Mystery Writers of Japan Award, was also made into an anime TV series, as was Kosetsu…
Steven Saylor – 23 March 1956
Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American author of historical novels. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and classics. Saylor’s best-known work is his Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series, set in ancient Rome. The novels’ hero is a detective named Gordianus the Finder,…
Diane Mott Davidson – 22 March 1949
Diane Mott Davidson (born March 22, 1949) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B. Parker.[1] Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College…
James Patterson – 22 March 1947
James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author. He is largely known for his novels about fictional psychologist Alex Cross, the protagonist of the Alex Cross series. Patterson also wrote the Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, and Witch and Wizard series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction…
Crime For Dinner 