ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Peru. A prolific writer, journalist, essayist and former politician, Llosa is one of the most influential Latin American writers. Published in 1963, his debut novel The Time of the Hero (La Ciudad y Los Perros) was an immediate international success. Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born on April 1, 1962 in a small village in Assam, India, Hiranya Borah completed his studies from the University of Delhi. He would later join the prestigious Indian Statistical Services. Borah authored two Assamese books while pursuing his higher education in the eighties. He also contributed as an editor of the Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR George Samuel Clason was born in 1874 in Louisiana, Missouri. He attended the University of Nebraska. Clason also served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. Clason was the founder of two companies – Clason Publishing and Clason Map Company. The latter would go on to publish a road atlas Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He is a well-known crime-fiction author, popular for creating the reputed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Scotland. He authored four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, a London-based consulting detective. A Study Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Peru. He is a prolific writer, journalist, essayist, former politician, and college professor. Llosa is one of the most influential Latin American writers of all time. Published in 1963, his debut novel The Time of the Hero (La Ciudad y Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amish Tripathi was born in Mumbai in 1974. After the success of his debut novel, The Immortals of Meluha, he left his career in the financial services sector to become a full-time author. The Shiva Trilogy went on to become the fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history. His Ramachandra Series was Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Roopa Pai is a well-known children’s author, who is also a computer engineer and journalist. Pai lives in Bangalore and has published over 20 books. She started her literary journey as an article writer for the Deccan Herald. Chanakya: the Master Statesman was her first book, which was published in 2004. Pai Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist. He has worked with The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. Hancock has authored many books on alternate and unconventional theories on ancient civilizations. Some of his notable works are The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Heaven’s Mirror, Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish author. He started his literary journey in 1993 with El Príncipe de la Niebla, which won the Edebé Literary Prize for young-adult fiction. His first adult novel was La Sombra del Viento. Published in 2001, the book was translated as The Shadow of the Wind by Read more…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish author, born in the city of Barcelona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990, and had a short stint in screen writing. Ruis Zafón started his literary journey in 1993 with the young-adult fiction El Príncipe de la Niebla (English: The Prince of Mist), which won Read more…
