Noble House (Asian Saga Book 5)

Claude-Henri de Fusée, abbé de Voisenon (8 July 1708 – 22 November 1775) was a French playwright and writer. Born at the château de Voisenon near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him. They remained friends for fifty years. Voisenon made […]

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. […]

André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (17 April 1739 – 1800) was a French novelist, best known for his novel Le Diable au corps. Nerciat was born at Dijon, the son of a royal official in Burgundy. He retired from the military in 1775 and worked as a writer of plays, verse, light music and pornographic novels, […]

Samuel Ray Delany Jr. (/dəˈleɪni/; born April 1, 1942), Chip Delany to his friends,[2] is an American author and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism and essays on sexuality and society. His works include Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 1966[3] and 1967[4] respectively), Nova, Dhalgren, […]

Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, La Force, was published in 1899. Together with Jean Moréas, he co-wrote Les Demoiselles Goubert, which was […]