Authors

Dao Press

1 book

Daoud Hari

1 book

Daphne Clair

Daphne Clair de Jong decided to be a writer when she was eight years old and won her first literary prize for a school essay. Her first short story was published when she was sixteen and she's been writing and publishing ever since. Nowadays she earns her living from writing, something her well-meaning teachers and guidance counsellors warned her she would never achieve in New Zealand. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and a collection of them was presented in Crossing the Bar, published by David Ling, where they garnered wide praise. In 1976, Daphne's first full-length romantic novel was published by Mills & Boon as Return to Love. Since then she has produced a steady output of romance set in New Zealand, occasionally Australia or on imaginary Pacific islands. As Laurey Bright she also writes for Silhouette Books. Her romances often appear on American stores' romance best-seller lists and she has been a Rita contest finalist, as well as winning and being placed in several other romance writing contests. Her other writing includes non-fiction, poetry and long historical fiction, She also is an active defender of the ideology of Feminists for Life, and she has written articles about it. Since then she has won other literary prizes both in her native New Zealand and other countries. These include the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, with Dying Light, a story about Alzheimer's Disease, which was filmed by Robyn Murphy Productions and shown at film festivals in several countries. (Starring Sara McLeod, Sam's wife in Lord of the Rings). Daphne is often asked to tutor courses in creative writing, and with Robyn Donald she teachs romance writing weekend courses in her home in the "winterless north" of in New Zealand. Daphne lives with her Netherlands-born husband in a farmlet, grazing livestock, growing their own fruit and vegetables and making their large home available to other writers as a centre for writers' workshops and retreats. Their five children, one of them an orphan from Hong Kong, have left home but drift back at irregular intervals. She enjoys cooking special meals but her cake-making is limited to three never-fail recipes. Her children maintain they have no memory of her baking for them except on birthdays, when she would produce, on request, cakes shaped into trains, clowns, fairytale houses and, once, even a windmill, in deference to their Dutch heritage from their father. Daphne frequently makes and breaks resolutions to indulge in some hearty outdoor activity, and loves to sniff strong black coffee but never drinks it. After a day at her desk she will happily watch re-runs of favourite TV shows. Usually she goes to bed early with a book which may be anything from a paperback romance or suspense novel to history, sociology or literary theory.

60 books

Daphne Day

1 book

Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.

29 books

Daphne Hope

1 book

Daphne Koller

Israeli-American computer scientist

1 book

Daphne Merkin

1 book

Daphne M. Gulland

1 book

Daphne Palasi Andreades

1 book

Daphne Pendergrass

1 book

Daphne Razazan

1 book

Daphne R. Taylor

1 book

Daphne Scholinski

1 book

Daphne Skinner

4 books

Daphne Woodward

1 book

Dap Louw

1 book

Daragh Smyth

1 book

Dara Girard

Dara Girard, national bestselling and award-winning author of multicultural novels and short stories, writes in various genres from contemporary romance, romantic suspense, women’s fiction, suspense, mystery and non-fiction. With more than forty novels in print, US born Dara pulls from her British, Jamaican, Nigerian heritage and exposure to various cultures to bring her stories to life. She continues to gain readers with her popular Henson Series, mysterious Clifton Sisters, fun Black Stockings Society series and novels like “Remember My Name” and “Winterwood Lane." Retrieved from: link text

1 book

Dara Horn

4 books

Dara Joy

Blazing new trails in experimental fiction is a top priority for Dara Joy. Her novels break all the rules and have captured a huge audience. Her unique works have gone on to receive numerous awards. Source: Goodreads.com

6 books

Darby Costello

1 book

Darby Kane

2 books

Darcey Bell

3 books

Darcey Bussell

1 book

Darcey Steinke

2 books

Darcie Clark Frohardt

1 book

Darcie Little Badger

Darcie Little Badger is a <u>Lipan Apache</u> writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Her third book, Sheine Lende, is the prequel to Elatsoe and was a USA Today bestseller. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran. (Source)

2 books

Darcie Wilder

1 book

Darcy

1 book

Darcy Ann Umphred

1 book

Darcy Carter

1 book

Darcy Coates

1 book

Darcy Coates

1 book

Darcy Coates

6 books

Darcy Dame

1 book

Darcy Frey

1 book

Darcy Lockman

1 book

Darcy Maguire

9 books

D'Arcy McNickle

1 book

D'Arcy McNickle

2 books

Darcy O'Brien

3 books

Darcy Ribeiro

1 book

Dard Hunter

1 book

Dare Wright

Dare Wright was a Canadian–American children's author, model, and photographer best known for her children's book, The Lonely Doll. Using photographs of her own childhood doll Edith, Wright created ten volumes of Edith's adventures with the Bears between 1957 and 1981. Her Look At A... series turns her camera toward the life cycles of various animals from birth to adulthood. Her other books, Make Me Real, Take Me Home, The Little One, and Lona also feature the wistful adventures of childhood toys rendered in evocative black-and-white photography.

2 books

Daria M. Sockey

1 book

Darian Leader

British psychoanalyst and author

2 books

Daria Polatin

1 book

Daria Snadowsky

1 book

Darice Bailer

1 book