Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.
Lawrence Block was born June 24, 1938[1] in Buffalo, New York,[1][2] where he was raised.[2] Block attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but left before graduating.
John “Steve” Stevenson (born 1930) is a British writer who, under the pen name Marcus van Heller, wrote erotic fiction for the Traveller’s Companion series of Olympia Press publisher (1955–1961). Later he also wrote under the pen name Stephen John. In 1954, at the age of 23, John Stevenson arrived for a sojourn in Paris, […]
Janet W. Hardy is a writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.[1] She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green.[2] She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton.[3] Read: Jasmine Sailing
Christian Scheuß (* 14. January 1966 in Bottrop) is a German author and journalist.[1] After school and a first apprenticeship as technician for consumer electronics he changed to journalism. His education as journalist started 1991 at the local radio station Radio Emscher-Lippe in Northrhine-Westphalia. Between 1995 and 2003 he was chief editor of the gay […]
Leopold Ritter[1] von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not consent to or approve of this […]
Thom Wolf is the pseudonym for a British writer. Thom Wolf published his first erotic story in the early 1990s. “Love Hurts” appeared in Overload, a British gay magazine in 1993. Read: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester