Ken Follett began his career as a fiction writer while working for the London Evening News. He produced a series of mysteries and thrillers (two for children) under various pseudonyms until he felt he had learned enough and written well enough to author...

Ken Follett was born in Wales, "in a little terrace house in Cardiff in 1949. It was very much a petit-bourgeois background. My dad was a clerk in the Inland Revenue [English equivalent of the IRS], and I went to state schools. "At that time I wanted to...

Ken Follett, author of best-selling thrillers such as Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man from St. Petersburg, The Third Twin, The Hammer of Eden, Code to Zero, and the 2001 title, Jackdaws, has created a winning blend of historical ev...