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Susan Vreeland—American Novelist

Susan Vreeland bestselling novelist, takes her inspiration from the worlds of Renaissance and modern art. Her newest book is Life Studies (2005), a Los Angeles Times bestseller, which features stories based on incidents in the lives of notable Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters. A teacher of high school English for thirty years, Vreeland became a writer relatively late in life.

Gertrude Chandler Warner—American Novelist

Gertrude Chandler Warner died in 1979 at the age of 89 after a full life as a teacher, author, and volunteer for the American Red Cross and other charitable organizations.

Shirley Ann Grau—American Novelist

Shirley Ann Grau is a major American author whose works are often set in New Orleans and Louisianas

Dow Mossman—American Novelist

Dow Mossman, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an American writer.

Dana Stabenow—American Novelist

Dana Stabenow - March 27 -- This contemporary novelist has written over 20 mystery novels, most of which are set in her native Alaska.

Curt Siodmak—American Novelist

Curt Siodmak, novelist and screenwriter and author of Donovan's Brain was born on this day in 1902.

David Eddings—American Novelist

David Eddings (born July 7, 1931) is an American author who has written several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels.

Brand Whitlock—American Novelist

Brand Whitlock 1869-1934, American author and diplomat, b. Urbana, Ohio. After working as a reporter and practicing law, he became reform mayor of Toledo (1905-13). Meanwhile he wrote realistic novels chiefly concerned with politics, among them The Thirteenth District (1902) and The Turn of the Balance (1907).

Lloyd Osbourne—American Novelist

Lloyd Osbourne (April 7, 1868 – 1947) was an American author and the step-son of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Osbourne was born in San Francisco to his mother Fanny Osbourne (née Vandegrift), who would marry Stevenson in 1880 when Osbourne was 12 years old. Osbourne studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

Karin Slaughter—American Novelist

She is the author of the international bestselling Grant County novels as well as the editor of Like A Charm, a collaboration of British and American crime fiction writers. She lives in Atlanta.

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