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Portrait image of Harlan Coben Photo: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images (2017)

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Coben, Harlan

Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston High School in 1980, and in 1984 he was awarded an MA in Political Science from Amherst College, Massachusetts, where he was also a prominent basketball player. He then worked as a guide at his grandfather’s travel agency before becoming a full-time author.
Coben lived in h...

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Portrait image of Dominique Manotti Photo: Eric Fougere/VIP Images/Corbis/Getty Images (2006)

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Manotti, Dominique

Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her fifties, started to write novels that she began to use the pseudonym.
Thibault was born in Paris. She studied Economic History at the Sorbonne and belongs to a politically active generation that was young and committed during the war in Algeria. She was made her aware of the ...

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