Accusation and novelist Linda Fairstein, author of biographies

Fairstein is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and 30, ran the Sex Crimes Unit prosecutor's office in Manhattan. He left office in 2002. During his tenure he had several high-profile and controversial cases, including Robert Chambers' "Preppy Murder" track in 1986.

Linda was born on May 5,1,947 thousand in Mount Vernon, New York. She graduated from Vassar College in 1969 with a degree in English literature. After graduating fromUniversity of Virginia Law in 1972, he joined the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as an assistant district attorney.

In 2004 Linda was named in a 10 million dollar lawsuit against the State of New York by Dr. Oliver Jovanovic. Dr. Jovanovic, a biologist, was condemned in 1998 for the kidnapping, sexual abuse and assault of a student who had met on the Internet. His case was repealed in 1999, located in an unfair election process.

Linda Fairstein is based on their legalKnow-how for his character in the series, Alexandra Cooper, the district attorney in Manhattan. Linda says that he wrote his first series in person because "I want" to readers of victimization and then he hopes to see the result in court by the prospect of Alex. "Linda Alex Cooper's first novel" Final Jeopardy "was made into a film for ABC-TV with Dana Delaney.

Linda said that people who do not commit very bright, probably 90% of crimes in this country. She says that in hisBooks that can invent the murders, but the reasons for the killings are works of art in real cases. He says he never wrote about any of their specific cases.

Linda centers in all his novels in high places around New York City. She says, "I love the places real and very rich in history, and then I lose my imagination." She says she wants every book by an evasion of fun, and for the reader to come up with something new to learn. He told her,Write the first hundred pages is equivalent to a channel, but after 200 pages, it's fast.

Linda loves to collect historical curiosities, antique jewelry, objects and writing desk. Collects first edition books, particularly crime and mystery genre. They also collected the nineteenth-century English literature. She loves reading mysteries and her favorite TV show CSI: Special Victims Unit.

Linda and her husband, Justin Feldman, who lives in Manhattan and have aAt home in Martha's Vineyard, where they go every year for four months. It has a separate house, where he writes and plots. Linda says that a writer has a passion since high school.

Linda is still a lawyer and takes only a few cases of victims of violent crime, pro bono, as a rule. It also does consulting and a speaker talks about sex crimes and domestic violence.

Books by Linda Stein Fire:

Series:

Alex Cooper
Final Jeopardy (1994)
Likely to die(1997)
Cold Hit (1999)
The dead house (2001)
The Bone Vault (2003)
The Kills (2004)
Entombed (2005)
Dance of Death (2006)
Bad Blood (2007)
Killer Heat (2008)
Lethal Legacy (2009)

Omnibus:
Final Jeopardy / probability of dying (2004)
Cold Hit / The dead house (2005)

Novels:
I Kill for That (2004) would be (with Rita Mae Brown, Jennifer Cruise, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Kay Hooper, Katherine Neville, Anne Perry, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith and TinaWainscott)
Hell Gate (2010)

Non Fiction:
Sexual violence: Our war against rape (1993)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (2007) (with Otto Penzler)

The Queen of Suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, author of biographies

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins was born in the Bronx on 24 December 1927. She was the only daughter of Irish immigrants, Luke Higgins and his wife Nora. His father died when Mary was only 11 years.

In order to fight their mother financially, Mary went to secretarial school after high school. He has worked at an advertising agency for three years until she decided she wanted to travel.

In 1949 Mary was a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines. Your race was EuropeAfrica and Asia. She says: "I went to a revolution in Syria and last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain." Obviously you were there then as asterisks Pan Pam was away for work.

After her marriage in1950 neighbor, Warren Clark, whom he had known since a teenager, Mary began writing short stories. He sold one of his first stories in 1956 for $ 100.

Warren and Mary had five children together, but Warren died of a heart attackin 1964. Left education of children to write their own, Mary began patriotic radio scripts and books. The first book he wrote was "Aspire to the sky." In 2002, Meredith Press published a new book entitled "Mount Vernon Love Story."

Mary returned to college graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 1979. Later called philosophy, because, he said that there is a lot of psychology in the philosophy that helped her to betterWriter. Today, Mary has thirteen honorary degrees.

Maria has many uses psychology in his novels. When asked about ESP, Maria says she believes that all authors to have an intuitive sense. "Sometimes I believe in telepathy, ESP is ..." However, you do not believe in reincarnation and channeling.

Mary Higgins Clark takes a lot of controversial topics in his novels, such as fertility clinics, the death penalty, HMO, multiple personalities and parapsychology.However, Maria has never used violence or explicit sex in his books. Maybe that's why they appeal to the growing number of young adults to read his novels.

Mary's daughter Carol Higgins Clark, also a writer of power, has written several books in collaboration with her.

In 1996 John married Mary Conheeney. John is the retired chairman and CEO of Merrill-Lynch Futures. They Saddle River, New Jersey home.

Although Mary is known as "The Queen of Suspense," she sayswants a book that a generation saga.

Books by Mary Higgins Clark:

Series:

Regan Reilly (with Carol Higgins Clark)
Deck the Halls (2000)
The Christmas Thief ((2004)
Santa Cruise (2006)
Dashing through the snow (2008)

Stand Alone Novels:

Aspire to Heaven (1960)
Where are the children (1975)
A Stranger is watching? (1977)
The Cradle Will Fall (1980)
A Cry in the Dark (1982)
Still Watch (1984)
Weep not, myLady (1987)
While My Pretty One Sleeps (1989)
He loves music, loves to dance (1991)
Throughout the City (1992)
I'll Be Seeing You (1993)
Remember Me (1994)
Pretending not See Her (1994)
Silent Night (1995)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995)
Moonlight Becomes You (1996)
You Belong to Me (1998)
All night long (1998)
We'll Meet Again (1999)
Prior to Say Good-Bye (2000)
He sees you when you sleep (2001) (with Carol HigginsClark)
On the street where you live (2001)
Daddy's Little Girl (2002)
The Second Time Around (2003)
Night is my time (2004)
No Place Like Home (2005)
(2006) Two little girls in blue
I Heard That Song Before (2007)
Where Are You Now (2008)
Just Take My Heart (2009)
The shadow of your smile (2010)

Fiction for children:

Ghost Ship: A History of Cape Cod (2007)

Non Fiction:

Mother (1996) (with Maya Angelou and Amy Tan)
KitchenPrivileges: A Memoir (2001)

Edited anthologies:

Death on the corridor: The 1987 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1987)
Caribbean Blues (1988)
Women of Mystery (1992) (with Faye Kellerman and Cynthia Manson)
Bad behavior (1995)
The plot thickens (1997)
The night awake (1998)
Great Mystery Series: 11 of the best stories of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (2000) (with Lawrence Block and RalphMcInerny)

Collections:

The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories (1989)
This is the business / Voices in the coal bin (1990) (with Carol Higgins Clark)
Death on the Cape and Other Stories (1993)
Stowaway and Milk Run (1993)
The lottery winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories (1994)
My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories (1996)

The prolific suspense novelist Dean Koontz, author of biographies

Dean Ray Koontz came into this world on July 9, 1945 in Bedford, Pennsylvania. He says his family was very poor and his father was a drunkard and womanizer media. The house was lived in a hut with four small rooms and a tar paper roof.

In 1967, Dean graduated from Shippensburg University with a degree in English. He married Gerda, his first love of the same year. They decided to have no children.

Dean took a job with the Appalachian Poverty Program, tutoring andTips to disadvantaged children. His love for writing was always with him, so he continued to write after work and on weekends. His first published work, "Star Quest" is a science fiction novel.

Dean had worked for about 18 months as an English teacher in high school, as his wife, Gerda, made a proposal. He got a job in a shoe factory and offered to help the family for five years, to concentrate on his writing career. After five years, quit her job and Gerdatends to the business side of writing Dean.

Dean has also written under this pseudonym: WH Allan, David Axton, Brian Coffey, Deanna Dwyer, KR Dwyer, John Hill, Aaron Wolf, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Richard Paige, Owen West. He says he did this because the publishers convinced him that because he writes in various genres, could end up alienating his audience.

Dean had written several science fiction books, before he ventures into thriller tension. He says:"... The beautifully decorated, bright, welcoming room contains an impressive series of terrible weapons in which the latent talent for murder." Dean also has cartoons, short stories, novels written and illustrated books. Some of his books were inspired by his beloved Golden Retriever, Trixie.

Dean has been called "a masterful writer and eccentric character." He is a writer, his extraordinary ability to provide a safe and comfortable in a world of pure newHorror.

Most of the novels of Dean are in and around Los Angeles. Many of his books were made into films, and talk of "Odd Thomas", a novel made into a TV mini-series.

Dean and Gerda, his home in southern California.

Books by Dean Koontz:

Series:

Tucker: (as Brian Coffey)
Blood Risk (1973)
Surrounded (1974)
The Wall of Masks (1975)

Moonlight Bay:
Fearless (1997)
Seize the Night (1998)

OddThomas:
Odd Thomas (2003)
Forever Odd (2005)
Brother Odd (2006)
Odd Hours (2008)
In Odd We Trust (2008) (with Queenie Chan)

Stand Alone Novels:
Star Quest (1968)
The Fall of the Dream Machine (1969)
The fear that the man (1969)
Anti-Man (1970)
Beast Horror (1970)
The Dark Symphony (1970)
Hell's Gate (1970)
The Crimson Witch (1971)
Demon Child (1971) (as Deanna Dwyer)
Legacy of Terror (1971) (as Deanna Dwyer)
A Darkness in My Soul(1972)
The meat in the oven (1972)
Blood Star (1972)
Warlock (1972)
Children of the Storm (1972) (as Deanna Dwyer)
The darkness of Summer (1972) (as Deanna Dwyer)
Chase (1972) (as KR Dwyer)
Dance with the Devil (1972) (as Deanna Dwyer)
The Land of Ghosts (1973) (as Deanna Dwyer)
A Werewolf Among Us (1973)
Hanging on (1973)
Demon Seed (1973)
Shattered (1,973)
(1974) after the last race
Dragonfly (1974) (as KR Dwyer)
Travel nightmare(1975)
Invasion (1975) (as Aaron Wolfe)
The Long Sleep (1975) (as John Hill)
Night Chills (1976)
Prisoner of Ice (1976) (as David Axton)
Thief of Time (1977)
The Vision (1977)
The Face of Fear (1977) (as KR Dwyer)
The Key to Midnight (1979) (as Leigh Nichols)
Whispers (1980)
The Voice of the Night (1980) (as Brian Coffey)
The Funhouse (1980) (as Owen West)
The Eyes of Darkness (1981) (as Leigh Nichols)
The Mask (1981) (Owen West)
Homeof Thunder (1982) (as Leigh Nichols)
Darkness Comes (1983)
Phantoms (1983)
Officials of the Twilight (1984) (as Leigh Nichols)
The door of September (1985) (as Richard Paige)
Twilight Eyes (1985)
Strangers (1986)
Watchers (1987)
Fire Shadow (1987) (as Leigh Nichols)
Lightening (1988)
Oddkins (1988)
Midnight (1989)
The Bad Place (1989)
Cold Fire (1991)
Hideaway (1991)
Dragon Tears (1992)
Mr. Murder (1993)
Winter Moon1993)
Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994)
Intensity (1995)
Tick Tock (1995)
Santa's Twin (1996)
Sole Survivor (1997)
False Memory (1999)
(2000) Out of the corner of the eye
A door from the sky (2001)
(2002) With the light of the moon
The Face (2003)
Life expectancy (2004)
The Abduction (2004)
Robot Santa: The Adventures of Santa's Twin (2004)
Velocity (2005)
The husband (2006)
The Good Guy (2007)
The Darkest EveningYear (2007)
Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008)
Relentless (2009)
Breathless (2009)

Picture books:
Trixie, which is Dragon (2009)
Trixie and Jinx (2010)

Graphic Novels:
Trapped (1993) (with Ed Gorman)
Nevermore (2009) (with Keith Champagne)

Non Fiction:
How to write best-selling novels (1981)
Writing popular fiction (1992)
Bliss to You: Trixie's Guide to a Happy Life (2008) (with Trixie Koontz)
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog(2009)

The Queen of Suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, author biographies

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins was born in the Bronx December 24, 1927. She was the only daughter of Irish immigrants, Luke Higgins and his wife Nora. His father died when Mary was only 11 years.

financial difficulties to help your mother, Mary went to secretarial school after her high school diploma. He worked at an advertising agency for three years until she decided she wanted to stay.

In 1949 Mary was a stewardess with Pan American Airlines. Run was Europe,Africa and Asia. He says: "I fell in a revolution in Syria and last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain." Of course, then you were like an asterisk, because Pan Pam was the airline for the job.

After her marriage in1950 to his neighbor, Warren Clark, who had met as a teenager, Mary began writing short stories. He sold one of his first stories in 1956 for $ 100.

Warren and Mary had five children together, but Warren died of a heart attackin 1964. Left raising children alone, Mary began writing radio scripts and patriotic books. The first book he wrote, "Aspire to heaven." In 2002, Meredith Press republished this book under a new title, "Mount Vernon Love Story."

Mary went back to college, graduated cum laude with a degree in philosophy at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 1979. Later, asked why the philosophy, as you said a lot of psychology in the philosophy that helped her betterWriter. Today, Mary has thirteen honorary doctorates.

Mary does not spend a lot of psychology in his novels. ESP applications, says Mary, who she believes that all authors have an intuitive feeling that "I firmly believe in ESP. Sometimes there are transmission of thoughts ..." However, it is not believe in channeling or reincarnation.

Mary Higgins Clark takes a lot of controversial topics in his novels, such as fertility clinics, the death penalty, HMO, multiple personality and parapsychology.However, Mary has never used violence or explicit sex in his books. Maybe that's why they read the growing number of young adults in their novels on them.

daughter of Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, also a writer of tension, wrote several books to work with her.

In 1996 John married Mary Conheeney. John is the former chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch Futures. They Saddle River, New Jersey.

Although Mary known as "The Queen of Suspense" is, she says she stillI want a book that a generation of writing Saga.

Books by Mary Higgins Clark

Series:

Regan Reilly (with Carol Higgins Clark)
Deck the Halls (2000)
The Christmas Thief ((2004)
Santa Cruise (2006)
Dashing through the snow (2008)

Stand-alone novels:

Aspire to Heaven (1960)
Where are the Children (1975)
A Stranger is watching? (1977)
The Cradle Will Fall (1980)
A Cry in the Dark (1982)
Stillwatch (1984)
Weep no more, myLady (1987)
While My Pretty One Sleeps (1989)
He loves music, loves to dance (1991)
Around the City (1992)
"I'll Be Seeing You (1993)
Remember Me (1994)
Pretending not to see (1994)
Silent Night (1995)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995)
Moonlight Becomes You (1996)
You Belong to Me (1998)
All night (1998)
We'll Meet Again (1999)
Before I Say Good-Bye (2000)
He sees when you sleep (2001) (with Carol HigginsClark)
On The Street Where You Live (2001)
Daddy's Little Girl (2002)
The Second Time Around (2003)
Nighttime Is My Time (2004)
No Place Like Home (2005)
2006 Two Little Girls in Blue ()
I heard that Song Before (2007)
Where Are You Now (2008)
Just Take My Heart (2009)
The shadow of your smile (2010)

Fiction Children:

Ghost Ship: A History of Cape Cod (2007)

Non Fiction:

Mother (1996) (with Maya Angelou and Amy Tan)
KitchenPrivileges: A Memoir (2001)

anthologies of publication:

Murder on the corridor: The 1987 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1987)
Caribbean Blues (1988)
Woman of Mystery (1992) (with Faye Kellerman and Cynthia Manson)
Bad Behaviour (1995)
The plot thickens (1997)
The night awake (1998)
Great Mystery Series: 11 of the best stories of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (2000) (with Lawrence Block and RalphMcInerny)

Collections:

The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories (1989)
This is the business / Voices in the coal bin (1990) (with Carol Higgins Clark)
The death of the Cape and Other Stories (1993)
Stowaway and Milk Run (1993)
The lottery winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories (1994)
My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories (1996)

Attorney and novelist Linda Fairstein, author biographies

Fairstein is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and 30, ran the Sex Crimes Unit prosecutor's office in Manhattan. He left office in 2002. During his tenure, has contributed to several high-profile and controversial cases, including Robert Chambers 'Murder' case Preppy in 1986.

Linda was born on May 5.1947 Mount Vernon, New York. She graduated from Vassar College in 1969 with a BA in English literature. After the completion ofUniversity of Virginia Law in 1972, he joined the Manhattan District Attorney's office as district attorney.

In 2004 Linda was named in a lawsuit by 10 million dollars against the State of New York by Dr. Oliver Jovanovic. Dr. Jovanovic, a biologist, was condemned in 1998 for kidnapping, sexual abuse and assault of a college student, who had met on the Internet. His case has been abolished in 1999, the siting of an unfair trial.

Linda Fairstein is based on their legalKnow-how for his character in the series, Alexandra Cooper, a prosecutor in Manhattan. Linda says that he wrote his first series in person because "I" to see the readers', victimhood, and then hopefully result in the classroom perspective Alex. "Linda for the first time Alex Cooper novel" Final Jeopardy ", made in an ABC television movie with Dana Delaney.

Linda says that people who do not commit very bright, probably 90% of crimes in this country. He says in hisBooks can invent, the murders, but the reasons for the killings on grounds of actual cases. She says she never wrote about each of their individual cases.

Linda centers in all his novels in places considerable near New York City. He says: "I just love the place, real and very rich in history, and then I lose my imagination." She says she wants every book a fun escape, and for the reader to come away learning something new. He told her,writing the first hundred pages is a treatment of root, but after 200 pages, is to sail safely.

Linda loves to collect historical curiosities, antique jewelry, desk and writing articles. Collects first edition books, particularly crime and mystery genre. It also collects the English literature of the nineteenth century. Read secrets, and love their favorite TV show is CSI Special Victims Unit.

Linda and her husband, Justin Feldman, lives in Manhattan and has aAt home on Martha's Vineyard, where they go every year for four months. It has a separate cottage, where he writes and plots. Linda says her passion has been a writer since high school.

Linda is still a lawyer and takes only a few cases of victims of violent crime, pro bono, as a rule. She does counseling and speaks is also a keynote speaker for sex crimes and domestic violence.

Books by Linda Stein Fire:

Series:

Alex Cooper
Final Jeopardy (1994)
Likely to die(1997)
Cold Hit (1999)
The Deadhouse (2001)
The Bone Vault (2003)
The Kills (2004)
Entombed (2005)
Dance of Death (2006)
Bad Blood (2007)
Killer Heat (2008)
Lethal Legacy (2009)

Omnibus:
Final Jeopardy / likely to die (2004)
Cold Hit / The Deadhouse (2005)

Novels:
I would like to Kill (2004) (with Rita Mae Brown, Jennifer Cruise, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Kay Hooper, Katherine Neville, Anne Perry, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith and TinaWainscott)
Hell Gate (2010)

Non Fiction:
Sexual violence: Our war against rape (1993)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (2007) (with Otto Penzler)