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Portrait image of Alice LaPlante Photo: Politics and Prose Bookstore (2011) CC BY-SA 2.0

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LaPlante, Alice

American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological crime novels. Her parents were both from Philadelphia, but moved to Washington the same year that she was born. The family moved on to Chicago in 1969, and settled down in the district of Arlington Heights. She studied at Buffalo Grove High School, and then studied at the...

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Portrait image of Thomas Mullen Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2019)

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Mullen, Thomas

The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a secondary school inside a Benedictine monastery. Mullen was encouraged to write by his teachers, many of them monks and priests. So he applied to a course in Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, but wasn’t accepted, and instead graduated with a double m...

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