Vian, Boris
1920 - 1959

French author born in the Paris suburb of Ville-d'Avray. Boris Vian went to school in Paris and trained as an engineer at...

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Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -

The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...

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Brown, Fredric
1906 - 1972

Fredric William Brown was an American author of mainly mystery and science fiction. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and...

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Stein, Gertrude
1874 - 1946

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in a family of well-educated, cultured German Jews. Her father, Daniel...

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