David Baldacci, 1960 - Novelist David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Washington D.C. as a trial and corporate lawyer. Baldacci writes frequently about the Supreme Court in his fiction and non-fictions books because "those nine black-robed justices are a complete enigma. Secrecy is always seductive, particularly when there is so much power concentrated in so few people." He has published several novels such as "Absolute Power," "The Winner," and "Saving Faith." "Absolute Power" was made into a major motion picture,… won Britain's prestigious W.H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction in 1997, and was nominated for a major literary award in Italy. He also published a novella entitled "Office Hours" and has authored five original screenplays. His works have been translated into over thirty languages and sold in over seventy countries. His works have also been published in USA Today Magazine, Britain's Tatler Magazine, Italy's Panorama Magazine and Germany's Welt am Sonntag. Baldacci participates in a variety of charities, holds various honorary chairs and sits on the boards of the Library of Virginia, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Virginia Blood Services and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Lee Child was born in Coventry, England in 1954. He attended law school at Sheffield University, worked in the theater, and finally worked as a presentation director for Granada Television. After being laid off in 1995 as a result of corporate restructuring, he decided to write a book. The Killing Floor won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and became the first book in the Jack Reacher series.
Lincoln Child lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.
Michael Connelly, Connelly graduated from the University of Florida in 1980 where he majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. After graduation, he worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, specializing in the crime beat. He was writing about the police and crime during the wave of violence that came over South Florida during the "cocaine wars." In 1986, he interviewed survivors of a plane crash with two other reporters and the magazine story subsequently written on the crash was on the short list for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. This story led to a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. After three years there, Connelly began… writing his first novel. His first novel featured the LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch and was titled "The Black Echo" (1992). It was based, in part, on a true crime that occurred in Los Angeles, and "The Black Echo" won the Edgar Award for best first novel by the Mystery Writers of America. He followed up with three more Bosch novels titled "The Black Ice," "The Concrete Blonde," and "The Last Coyote." Afterwards, he published "The Poet" (1996), which featured a newspaper reporter as a protagonist, and "Blood Work" (1998), which was inspired by a friend's heart transplant and the "survivors guilt" that was experienced by his friend for living at the expense of somebody's death. "Angels Flight" (1999) brought back the Bosch series and in "Void Moon" (2000), Connelly introduced a new character, Cassie Black, who's a high stakes Las Vegas thief. Connelly's awards include the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Nero, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France) and the Grand Prix (France).
Linwood Barclay is married with two children and lives in Burlington, Ontario. He is the author of three acclaimed Zack Walker mysteries and has written a popular column for the Toronto Star since 1993. On June 28, 2008 he wrote his last column announcing his retirement from the Star. His newest novel, Fear the Worst, will be out in August 2009.