
the photographer K.W. Gullers
Photo: Carl Erik Sundström / TT (1958)
Sample of authors
Trenter, Stieg
Stieg Ivar Trenter, born Stig Ivar Johansson, grew up in Farsta, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. His father owned a general store. Although he did well, Trenter was never happy at school, and after graduating in 1931 he tried various professions such as office boy and working in an abattoir. He wanted to become an aviator, and he joined the air force, but he soon lost interest and he left after...

Sample of authors
Clark, Mary Higgins
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on December 24, 1927. Both her parents were of Irish descent. They owned an Irish pub in New York, and her father worked around the clock during the depression in the 1930s to keep ends meet. He died in his sleep in 1939, leaving his wife, two sons and his only daughter in a destitute...