The Lady and the Highwayman [Proper Romance]

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 […]

Frank Harris (14 February 1855 – 26 August 1931) was an Irish editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States early in life, working in a variety of unskilled jobs before attending the University of Kansas […]

Seabury Grandin Quinn (also known as Jerome Burke; December 1889 – 24 December 1969) was a government lawyer, journalist, and an American pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.[1] He was born and lived in Washington, D.C. In 1910. He graduated from the […]

Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake is perhaps best-remembered for creating two professional criminal characters who each […]

Dorothy “Dossie” Easton (born February 26, 1944) is an author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California.[1] She is polyamorous,[2] and lives in West Marin, California.[3] Easton is a non-fiction author and poet. She has been a plenary or keynote speaker at many conferences, including conferences of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors […]