Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 - 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. In January 1919, the sixteen-year-old Simenon took a job at the Gazette de Liège, a newspaper edited by Joseph Demarteau.

Jeremy Taylor has written over 45 books for language learners and still loves writing. When he's not writing, he travels around Europe, taking photographs, training teachers, and getting ideas for new books. He loves cooking, growing his own food and picking (and cooking) wild mushrooms. For more information about Jeremy, have a look at his website: www.jeremytaylor.eu

Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 - 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida. Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929. He achieved the widest notice with America primo amore, published in 1935, a memoir of the time he spent teaching at Columbia University.

Olivier Adam was born in 1974 in the Paris region. Ja va bien, is his first novel he published in 2000. The novel is adapted to the cinema in 2007.