Mikaël Ollivier was born 22 March 1968 in Versailles. When he went to school he hated to read, but he loved going to the cinema and watch the films of Alfred Hitchcock. In fact, it was Alfred Hitchcock who made him begin to read and write. After high school Mikaël Ollivier began to write plays for the television and the cinema and especially he enjoined writing novels (science fiction, crimes), both for the adults and the teenagers. "Frères de sang" was published in 2003. It has received 8 differents literary prizes and a screen version has been made on French TV.

Fred Paronuzzi was born in 1967 in Ugine Savoie where he still lives. He has traveled extensively to teach French in Canada, Scotland and Slovakia. Apart from his activities as a writer, he is also a professor of literature and English in a vocational school.

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908 - 1960) is one of the great American storytellers of our time. He was born in Mississippi, where his father was a mill and farm worker. When the father left his family and the mother fell ill, the boy was sent to live with relatives. He went to school in Jackson, where his aunt taught. After he left school he worked at several jobs and moved northward to Chicago, where he became a clerk in a post office. He started writing early in his life and traveled widely in Mexico, the Gold Coast (later Ghana), and Europe, where he spent his last years in Paris.