Authors Biogs 1

Dunn, Carola.
Born in London and grew up in a small Buckinghamshire village. After a quiet scholastic career at a Quaker school, she gained A levels in Chemistry and French and entered Manchester University, where she took a BA in languages including Russian and French as well as a year of Spanish. She worked for a few months as a secretary, then, having travelled in Eastern Europe during her student days, she decided to set off around the world. She made it as far as Samoa and Fiji before returning to the US to get married. Over the next 20 years gained a family and went through a variety of jobs: childcare, market research, construction, building design, writing definitions for a dictionary of science and technology, before writing her first book in 1979. In 1992 moved to Eugene, Oregon, where she now lives. She has a granddaughter of three who’s mad about books and a one year old grandson.

Akunin, Boris.
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956; he is a philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese. He published his first detective stories in 1998 and in a very short time has become one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written nine Erast Fandorin novels to date, and is working on two other series as well. Akunin enjoys almost legendary popularity in Russia. He lives in Moscow.

Alexander, Bruce.
Was the pseudonym of Bruce Cook, a journalist. Writing as Bruce Alexander, Cook penned ten historical novels featuring the blind 18th century detective Sir John Fielding. Born in Chicago, he earned a degree in literature from that city's Loyola University and served in the U.S. Army overseas in the 50s. He then worked as an editor and writer for publications including the National Observer, Newsweek, the Detroit News, USA Today, He is survived by his wife of nine years, JudithAller, three children, three stepchildren, an

Barron, Stephanie.
Born Francine Stephanie Barron in Binghamton, NY in 1963. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and started college at Princeton. Worked as a journalist, until she applied to the CIA when she became an intelligence analyst. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Fifteen books have followed, along with sundry children, dogs, and houses. When she's not writing, she likes to ski, garden, needlepoint, and buy art. Her phone number is definitely

Davis, Lindsey.
Lindsey was born and brought up in Birmingham, read English at Oxford, then joined the civil service. Her first published fiction was romantic serials in Woman's Realm. She started writing about the Romans with The Course of Honour, the remarkable true love story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress Antonia Caenis. Her research into First Century Rome inspired The Silver Pigs, the first outing for Falco and Helena, which was published in 1989.

Doherty, Paul.
Born in Middlesborough, he studied History and gained his doctorate at Oxford for a thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. Balances a prolific writing career with being the headmaster in a north-east London school. Currently lives with wife and family in Epping Forest.