ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), lahir di Oak Park, Illiinois, memulai karirnya sebagai penulis di sebuah kantor di kota Kansas pada saat berusia 17 tahun. Setelah Perang Dunia I, dia bergabung menjdai sukarelawan dalam kelompok tentara Italia. Setelah dia kembali ke Amerika, dia menjadi reporter untuk Canada dan koran Amerika.
Selama 20 tahun, Hemingway menjadi anggota dalam sebuah kelompok America di Paris, dan ini merupakan hasil kerja pertamanya, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Sama suksesnya dengan A Farewell to Arms (1929). Hemingway menggunakan pengalamannya sebagai reporter selama di perang saudara di Spain sebagai latar belakang dari novel ambisiusnya,, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Diantara itu, ada sebuah novel yang sangat terkenal yaitu The Old Man and the Sea (1952), ceritanya mengenai perjalanan seorang nelayan tua.
DAN BROWN..
Dan Brown is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code -- one of the best selling novels of all time. In early 2004, all four of Dan Brown's novels held spots on the New York Times bestseller list during the same week.
Recently named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine, Dan Brown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels have been translated and published in more than 40 languages around the world.
Dan is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national bestselling eBook. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. Brown’s follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security, and classified technology.
The son of a Presidential Award winning math professor and of a professional sacred musician, Dan grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. These complementary perspectives served as inspiration for his acclaimed novel Angels & Demons—a science vs. religion thriller set within a Swiss physics lab and Vatican City. Recently, he has begun work on a series of symbology thrillers featuring his popular protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of iconography and religious art. The upcoming series will include books set in Paris, London, and Washington D.C.
Dan’s wife Blythe—an art history buff and painter—collaborates on his research and accompanies him on his frequent research trips, their latest to Paris, where they spent time in the Louvre for his thriller, The Da Vinci Code.
The Da Vinci Code has sold some 70 million copies worldwide and is now being adapted for film by Columbia Pictures.
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