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Early in his career, Masters wrote books on French writers such as Molière (1970) and Camus, among others, without any pretence at them having any real originality. [1] The publisher Anthony Blond interested him in a book on the public's dreams about the Royal Family, which was the first of several books by Masters on the British aristocracy.
Another book, Foolscap (1991), was about a university professor tasked with authoring an old playwright's biography, while First Lady, published in 2001, recounted a serial killer preying on women in a fictitious North Carolina town and became a bestseller. [4]
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, [2] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
Michael Newton (September 16, 1951 – September 6, 2021) [1] was an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's The Executioner book series. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Biography
A number of Thompson's books were adapted as popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters. The writer R.V. Cassill has suggested that of all crime fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor Horace McCoy ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". [ 1 ]
In the 1970s, Stéphane Bourgoin was a columnist for B movies and horror films for the fanzines Vampirella and L'Écran fantastique. [7]In 1974, he moved to the United States where he played the role of a man who did everything for small-budget film productions. [8]
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I love making Christchurch a character for the books, creating an 'alternate' version of the city, where the main character often muses that 'Christchurch is broken'." [6] His fourth novel, Blood Men, was released in February 2010. Cleave won the 2010 Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel Award for Blood Men. [2]