Albano, Peter

Peter Albano was born in Los Angeles, California and educated at the University of Southern California. With the exception of military service, he has lived his entire life in Southern California. A full-time writer since 1983, he is the author of fifteen novels. A widower, he lives on the Palo...

Albert, Bill

Bill Albert was born in New York and grew up in Southern California. He moved to England in 1964 and until recently taught history at the university in Norwich, where he still lives with his wife, his young daughter, and occasionally, their other four children. Besides writing, he is active in the ...

Aldiss, Brian

Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he has published award-winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award), bestselling popular fiction including the three-volume Horatio Stubb...

Aldridge, Ray

Ray Aldridge was born in 1948. He has published a three-volume series, The Emancipator, featuring ex-slave investigator Ruiz Aw. The volume titles are The Pharaoh Contract, The Emperor of Everything and The Orpheus Machine. Short stories by Aldridge appeared in Full...

Anderson, Sharon

Sharon Anderson-Alter was born, raised and educated in Toronto. She received her Honours Degree in English and French from the University of Toronto and was granted a teaching fellowship in postgraduate studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where she earned her Master of Arts degree...

Anderson, Mark

Mark K. Anderson is the author of "SHAKESPEARE" BY ANOTHER NAME: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare. A scholarly but popular and commercial writer, Anderson has deeply researched the life of Shakespeare and drawn conclusions that he argues are incontrovertible. ...

Andrews, Denison

Denison Andrews stumped the panel on "What's My Line?" while promoting his first books, HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN HAMMOCK & LIE IN IT (Workman). He lives in Boston, and has been involved in teaching, selling, store ownership, real estate, insurance, ...

Anthony, Piers

Piers Anthony has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best-known for his long-running MAGIC OF XANTH series, many of which appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, he has also had great success with THE INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY series and the CLUSTE...

Arnason, Eleanor

Eleanor Arnason is the author of five published novels and a number of poems and short stories. She has received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for "gender-bending SF," and the Mythopoeic Society's Fantasy Award for A WOMAN OF THE IRON PEOPLE. She has also received the Minnesota Book Award for RING ...

Ashley, Ardythe

Ardythe Ashley is a novelist and screenwriter who lives and works in Manhattan. She maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, specializing in work with writers and artists. Her hobbies include watercolor painting. ...

Asimov, Isaac

Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born American writer and the author of nearly five hundred books. He is credited as one of the finest writers of science fiction in the twentieth century. Many, however, believe Asimov's greatest talent was for, as he called it, "translating" science, making it un...

Athas, Daphne

Daphne Athas has published five books, countless articles, stories, poems, and plays, and has won a dozen literary awards and honors over the past 30 years. She currently teaches writing and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...

Atlee, Gwyneth

Gwyneth learned her craft by reading and writing in nearly every genre imaginable, from science fiction to fantasy to children's ghost stories, but her first paid publications were nonfiction articles for educational magazines. Over a period of several years, she went from placing in to winning man...