
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...

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McCaffrey, Anne
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF (science fiction) and fantasy. That applies primarily to the books about the planet Pern, situated in another solar system. The stories in these include space ships, advanced technology and journeys between different planets, and the author herself called them SF. But they...