Lillian Jackson Braun – Mystery Writer

Ever popular author, Lillian Jackson Braun has a past almost as mysterious as her famous Jim Qwilleran cat series of mysteries. During the years of 1966 through 1968, Braun published her first three novels in the Cat Who… series and then seemed to disappear for almost 20 years.

Koko and Yum Yum have helped Jim solve 29 mysteries to date with #30 set to be released sometime in 2009. It’s title will be “The Cat Who Smelled Smoke”.

Braun writes a classic mystery that is fun to read and well, there are those two wonderful Siamese cats, too. All of her books are a joy to read with no terror or blood, just good old fashioned who done its!

The first 3 titles published by Lillian Jackson Braun were later published together in one book. The Cat Who Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off can be found in this book located in my shop: The Cat Who…

The Cat Who Wasn’t There can be found in paperback in my shop.

Author Robert Ludlum – A favorite of mine

Robert Ludlum was an American author who penned 25 thriller novels. Born May 25, 1927 in New York City and passed on March 12, 2001 in Naples, Florida. He also published books under 2 known pseudonyms – Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.

Many of Ludlum’s books have been made into movies with the most recent being the Bourne series with actor Matt Damon.

Books written by Robert Ludlum:

• The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)
• The Osterman Weekend (1972)
• The Matlock Paper (1973)
• Trevayne (1973, writing under the pen-name Jonathan Ryder)
• The Cry of the Halidon (1974, writing under the pen-name Jonathan Ryder)
• The Rhinemann Exchange (1974)
• The Road to Gandolfo (1975, writing under the pen-name Michael Shephard)
• The Gemini Contenders (1976)
• The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)
• The Holcroft Covenant (1978)
• The Matarese Circle (1979)
• The Bourne Identity (1980)
• The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)
• The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
• The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
• The Icarus Agenda (1988)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
• The Road to Omaha (1992)
• The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
• The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
• The Matarese Countdown (1997)
• The Prometheus Deception (2000)

A book club edition of The Holcroft Covenant can be found at The Paper Trail

A 1992 first edition of The Road to Omaha can be found at The Paper Trail

Hervey Allen author of Anthony Adverse

Hervey Allen was an American author whose life spanned from December 8, 1889 to December 28, 1949.

He was born as William Hervey Allen in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel (1926), a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

For a period of time, Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina. There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward.

In the 1940s he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer.

Allen died in Miami, Florida from a heart attack while in the shower, and was found by his wife Annette.

Bibliography:

• Anthony Adverse (1933)
• Israfel (1926)
• Action at Aquila ( 1938 )
• The Forest and the Fort (1943)
• Bedford Village (1944)
• Toward the Morning ( 1948 )

Resource: Wikipedia