John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children’s books during his career.

Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his “Rabbit” series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were recognized with the Pulitzer Prize.

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Jean-Jacques Bouchard

Jean-Jacques Bouchard (30 October 1606, in Paris – 26 August 1641, in Rome) was a French writer. He was the son of Jean Bouchard, Secretary of the King, and Claude Merceron, a relation of Gilles Ménage, from a recently ennobled family composed of judges.[1] Bouchard was an author of erotic literature and notably published Confessions. […]

Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore

Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore (9 April 1911 – 20 August 2006) was a British architect, writer of erotic fiction, and a peer of the United Kingdom. Lord Deramore was educated at Harrow School and St. John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduation he earned a diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture. […]

Louis Perceau

Louis Perceau (22 September 1883 – 20 April 1942) was a 20th-century French polygraph. He used several pseudonyms including Helpey bibliographe poitevin, Dr. Ludovico Hernandez, Alexandre de Vérineau, Un vieux journaliste, Radeville et Deschamps, marquis Boniface de Richequeue, sometimes jointly with Fernand Fleuret. First a tailor, Louis Perceau was in Paris from 1901. He became […]

Caro Soles

Caro Soles is a Canadian author of science fiction, mystery and erotica literature,[1] who has published work both in her own name and under the pen name Kyle Stone.[2] Previously a high school French language teacher, when Soles decided she wanted to become a writer she initially tried her hand at a romance novel,[1] instead […]

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (12 June 1760 – 25 August 1797) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat.[1] Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller’s clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation […]

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