Anne Rice is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat.
Ruth Barbara Rendell,
Baroness Rendell of Babergh was an English author of thrillers and
psychological murder mysteries. Rendell's
best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many popular
police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell also generated a separate brand of
crime fiction that explored deeply into the psychological background of
criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise
socially isolated.
Colleen McCullough was most
well known for her sweeping family drama, The Thorn Birds, set on a remote sheep station in outback Australia.
The book, which sold 30
million copies worldwide, was sold for a then-record $1.9 million and a
miniseries, starring Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward and Barbara Stanwyck
became one of the most watched of all time.
But The Thorn Birds was just
one of the many books McCullough wrote in a career spanning four decades.
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