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Gender: Male
Hometown: Columbus
Born at: 1943-10-08
Number of works: 998
Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in th......
R.l. Stine is the author of following books:
Hometown: Columbus
Born at: 1943-10-08
Number of works: 998
Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in th......
R.l. Stine is the author of following books:
- - Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4)
- - Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)
- - Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)
- - The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11)
- - Stay Out of the Basement (Goosebumps, #2)
- - Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Goosebumps, #9)
- - One Day at Horrorland (Goosebumps, #16)
- - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (Goosebumps, #14)
- - The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb (Goosebumps, #5)
- - Be Careful What You Wish For... (Goosebumps, #12)

Gender: Male
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Born at: 1945-01-01
Number of works: 94
Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-fathers surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel......
Raymond E. Feist is the author of following books:
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Born at: 1945-01-01
Number of works: 94
Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-fathers surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel......
Raymond E. Feist is the author of following books:
- - Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)
- - Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2)
- - A Darkness at Sethanon (The Riftwar Saga, #4)
- - Silverthorn (The Riftwar Saga, #3)
- - Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)
- - Daughter of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1)
- - Shadow of a Dark Queen (The Serpentwar Saga, #1)
- - Rise of a Merchant Prince (The Serpentwar Saga, #2)
- - Prince of the Blood (Krondor's Sons, #1)
- - The King's Buccaneer (Krondor's Sons, #2)

Gender: Female
Hometown: Unkown
Born at: 1952-01-01
Number of works: 9
Rebecca Wells was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana. “I grew up,” she says, “in the fertile world of story-telling, filled with flamboyance, flirting, futility, and fear.” Surrounded by Louisiana raconteurs, a large extended family, and Our Lady of Prompt Succor’s Parish, Rebecca’......
Rebecca Wells is the author of following books:
Hometown: Unkown
Born at: 1952-01-01
Number of works: 9
Rebecca Wells was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana. “I grew up,” she says, “in the fertile world of story-telling, filled with flamboyance, flirting, futility, and fear.” Surrounded by Louisiana raconteurs, a large extended family, and Our Lady of Prompt Succor’s Parish, Rebecca’......
Rebecca Wells is the author of following books:
- - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- - Little Altars Everywhere
- - Ya Yas in Bloom
- - The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
- - Little Altars Everywhere & Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- - Best of LSU Fiction
- - Out of the Mold: Independent Voices Breaking Out of the Mold
- - Neal's Yard Remedies Homoeopathy (Neals Yard Remedies)

Gender: Female
Hometown: Boise
Number of works: 28
Rachel was born in Boise, Idaho, USA. Her father worked for a telephone company, and her mother was a house wife. Idaho has the largest population of Basques outside of the Basque lands of Spain. She grew up with kids with last names like Uberuaga, Berriochoa, and Egisquiza, but years later she disc......
Rachel Gibson is the author of following books:
Hometown: Boise
Number of works: 28
Rachel was born in Boise, Idaho, USA. Her father worked for a telephone company, and her mother was a house wife. Idaho has the largest population of Basques outside of the Basque lands of Spain. She grew up with kids with last names like Uberuaga, Berriochoa, and Egisquiza, but years later she disc......
Rachel Gibson is the author of following books:
- - See Jane Score (Chinooks Hockey Team, #2)
- - Not Another Bad Date (Writer Friends, #4)
- - Simply Irresistible (Chinooks Hockey Team, #1)
- - Tangled Up In You (Writer Friends, #3), (Truly, Idaho, #2)
- - Nothing But Trouble (Chinooks Hockey Team, #5)
- - Sex, Lies, and Online Dating (Writer Friends, #1)
- - Truly Madly Yours (Truly, Idaho, #1)
- - I'm In No Mood For Love (Writer Friends, #2)
- - True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, #4)
- - The Trouble With Valentine's Day

Gender: Male
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Born at: 1888-07-23
Died at: 1959-03-26
Number of works: 133
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is, along with Dashiell Hamme......
Raymond Chandler is the author of following books:
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Born at: 1888-07-23
Died at: 1959-03-26
Number of works: 133
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is, along with Dashiell Hamme......
Raymond Chandler is the author of following books:

Gender: Male
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Born at: 1874-03-26
Died at: 1963-01-29
Number of works: 129
Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. His first two books of verse, ......
Robert Frost is the author of following books:
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Born at: 1874-03-26
Died at: 1963-01-29
Number of works: 129
Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. His first two books of verse, ......
Robert Frost is the author of following books:

Gender: Male
Hometown: Euclid, Ohio
Born at: 1937-05-13
Died at: 1995-06-14
Number of works: 251
Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf; the most famous of these is 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth contin......
Roger Zelazny is the author of following books:
Hometown: Euclid, Ohio
Born at: 1937-05-13
Died at: 1995-06-14
Number of works: 251
Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf; the most famous of these is 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth contin......
Roger Zelazny is the author of following books:
- - The Great Book of Amber (Chronicles of Amber, #1-10)
- - Nine Princes in Amber (Amber Chronicles, #1)
- - Lord of Light
- - The Guns of Avalon (Amber Chronicles, #2)
- - The Hand of Oberon (Amber Chronicles, #4)
- - Sign of the Unicorn (Amber Chronicles, #3)
- - The Courts of Chaos (Amber Chronicles, #5)
- - Trumps of Doom (Amber Chronicles, #6)
- - Blood of Amber (Amber Chronicles, #7)
- - Prince of Chaos (Amber Chronicles, #10)

Gender: Male
Hometown: Clatskanie, Oregon
Born at: 1938-05-25
Died at: 1988-08-02
Number of works: 130
Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to suppo......
Raymond Carver is the author of following books:
Hometown: Clatskanie, Oregon
Born at: 1938-05-25
Died at: 1988-08-02
Number of works: 130
Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to suppo......
Raymond Carver is the author of following books:
- - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- - Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
- - Cathedral
- - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- - Short Cuts: Selected Stories
- - Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
- - Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
- - All of Us: The Collected Poems
- - Collected Stories
- - A New Path to the Waterfall

Gender: Unkown
Hometown: Santiago
Born at: 1953-04-28
Died at: 2003-07-15
Number of works: 32
For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher......
Roberto Bolaño is the author of following books:
Hometown: Santiago
Born at: 1953-04-28
Died at: 2003-07-15
Number of works: 32
For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher......
Roberto Bolaño is the author of following books:

Gender: Male
Hometown: Allendale, New Jersey
Born at: 1926-02-20
Number of works: 119
Born in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the Universi......
Richard Matheson is the author of following books:
Hometown: Allendale, New Jersey
Born at: 1926-02-20
Number of works: 119
Born in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the Universi......
Richard Matheson is the author of following books:
