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Portrait image of Gavin Lyall Photo: WATFORD/Mirrorpix via Getty Images (1969)

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Lyall, Gavin

Gavin Tudor Lyall was a British author of espionage thrillers. He was born in Birmingham, England, where he attended the King Edward VI School between 1943 and 1951. After serving in the Royal Air Force 1951–53, he read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1956. While at Cambridge he edited the student newspaper Varsity in which he also published a c...

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Portrait image of Mariette Lindstein Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Lindstein, Mariette

Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost stories, and when she was in her teens she wrote short stories which she got published in magazines for teenagers. After finishing upper-secondary school, she became interested in scientology and moved to Malmö in 1978 together with her boyfriend to go on some of the courses ...

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