Sample of authors
Van Greenaway, Peter
Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science fiction. He was extremely shy, and little is known about his life. Allegedly, he only gave two interviews in the last 25 years of his life, both with Swedish crime fiction aficionados Jan Broberg and Ulf Örnklo.
No birth or death certificates have ever been found, so there is ...
Photo: Peter Peitsch (1995) / www.peitschphoto.com
Sample of authors
Schlink, Bernhard
The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in Heidelberg. His mother was Swiss and his father German, a professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg. As a young man Schlink was interested in literature; he wanted either to become an author or to study history and sociology. But he followed his father's advice...