The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, he moved to Lund where he attended university, and was living there ever since. Blom graduated with a BA in 1972. He worked as a councillor at Lund University, as a freelance journalist, translator and literature critic.
Blom became a member of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Aca...

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An English poet and also a notorious adventurer and traveler, born in London. His father, who was known as "Mad Jack", did not hesitate to squander away a fortune and disappeared to France, where he died when his son was three years old. Byron had to spend his childhood together with his mentally weak mother in an impoverished home near Aberdeen in Scotland. But already at the age of ten he...

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Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish author born in Stockholm to a large middle-class family. His father was head of the commercial steamer traffic on Lake Mälaren and the Göta Canal. His mother, Eleonora Ulrika Norling, had been waitress and a maid. She was Carl Oscar’s housekeeper at the time of their marriage in 1847. Two boys had been born by then. In 1851 and 1856 the family moved to a new h...

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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is an American author and former detective sergeant. He is best known for his police procedural novels in which he skilfully combines fact and fiction. Most of his books are based on more or less real cases as well as his own experience as a police officer and detective. Wambaugh has also published best-selling non-fiction books about murder investigations, many of...

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The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He left school at 15 and started to work as an office boy. In 1910 he got a job as a reporter on the Baltimore News American, and in the same year, aged 17, he married Rose Keller Karger. The couple had two children, of whom their son William ‘Will’ Oursler (1913–1985) became a w...

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