Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images
Sample of authors
Ludlum, Robert
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex
Sample of authors
Horst, Jørn Lier
A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as well as younger readers. He was born in Porsgrunn in Telemark as Jørn Lier Olsen, and grew up in nearby Bamble. Already in his youth he showed an interest in writing, and was the editor of various school and student magazines, including at Bamble upper secondary school wh...