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About Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the Golden Age Queen of Crime, the most popular mystery writer of all time. She's in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's bestselling author. She's given us Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, and the longest-running play in London, The Mousetrap. Christie was born in England in 1890 and died in 1976, though her books live on due to their timeless appeal. In 1971 she received the high honor of becoming a Dame of the British Empire. So what's the one dream her millions of loyal fans from around the world still share? No mystery here. To find one more Agatha Christie novel they haven't read.

About Alan Furst
Alan Furst is a master of the spy thriller, often compared with Graham Greene. His eclectic writing career included covering Seattle Seahawks football games and co-authoring Debbi Fields' One Smart Cookie, which enabled him to move to Paris, travel as a journalist in Russia and Eastern Europe, and begin work on the first of his elegant tales of historical espionage, Night Soldiers. Furst's gift lies in being moved by his characters. "Somehow, I know these people,I know their voices." Indeed, he writes to sound: "I find myself dry-mouthed after a couple of hours writing."

About Alexander McCall Smith
Zimbabwe and Scotland – Alexander McCall Smith grew up in the former and went to college in the latter. His four charming and very popular series reflect his love for these two areas. Mma Ramotswe runs her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency just over the border from Zimbabwe. Scotland is home to both Isabel Dalhousie and the residents of the building at 44 Scotland Street. And the oddball Professor von Igelfeld leaps from Cambridge to Germany and Colombia. Smith hops around too; when he isn't writing or speaking, he plays bassoon for the orchestra he co-founded: The Really Terrible Orchestra.

About Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, M.D. is a leader in the integration of Western medicine and the exploding field of alternative medicine. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he teaches at the University of Arizona in Tucson, specializing in alternative medicine, mind/body interactions and medical botany. He is the founder of the Program Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, where he is training a new generation of physicians.

About Anne Perry
Mysteries, secrets, and murder, which play a large part in Anne Perry's work, are also no stranger to her in real life: as a teenager in New Zealand, she and her best friend were tried and convicted for killing the other girl's mother. The1994 movie Heavenly Creatures, starring Kate Winslet, dealt with that case. Perry, the pseudonym of Juliet Hume, writes two books a year: "A Pitt novel in the spring, and a Monk novel in the fall," she says. Of her work, the San Diego Union-Tribune believes that "You can count on a Perry tale to be superior."

About Anne Rice
Born Howard Allen O'Brien, Anne Rice changed her name to Anne when she started first grade, and her last name to Rice when she married Stan Rice in 1961. Interview with a Vampire began life as a short story in 1969, but she turned itinto a novel four years later. Several of her novels have appeared in theaters and on TV, including 2002's Queen of the Damned. In 2002, however, she stopped writing horror, and has turned herself entirely to writing about the life of Jesus Christ.

About Anne Rivers Siddons
If you want a romanticized vision of the South, don't look to Anne Rivers Siddons for it. She loves the South, but "It's like an old marriage or a long love," she told The New York Times. "The commitment is absolute, but the romance has long since worn off. I want to write about it as it really is." Fired from her first writing job for applauding integration (a very innocuous piece, she says, "almost sophomoric") she seems to be the one to tell us about the "real South." She now alternates her time in Maine and South Carolina. "I'm walking on the surface of the earth" in Maine, she says, whereas "in the South, I always feel like I'm knee-deep."

About Anne Tyler
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Anne Tyler is remarkable with characters. Her focus is on the people she writes about. "What it seems to me I'm doing," she says, "is populating a town. Pretty soon it's going to be just full of lots of people I've made up," all of whom she likes, because they all take up residence in her house until the novel is done. "[She] might be described as a domestic novelist, one of that great line descending from Jane Austen."—The New York Times

About Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke's fascination with science led to his invention of a method of communication with satellites in geostationary orbits; and he first thought up the idea of using satellites for weather forecasting. He has three Laws. One: "When a distinguished but elderly [i.e. over 30] scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." Two: "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Three: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

About Arundhati Roy
"I like to think that if by chance I were to become completely destitute," Arundhati Roy told the Guardian, "I could spend the rest of my life walking into people's homes and saying "I wrote The God of Small Things, will you give me lunch?" This winner of England's Booker Prize insists that what we hear in her work is the way it first came out; she neither edits nor rewrites. Writing is "an intuitive process," she says. "Language is something I don't think about."

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