Frank Tallis
1958
Frank Tallis is one of the Edgar Award nominated authors from The United Kingdom, who is famous for writing historical, mystery, suspense, and fantasy novels, and essays. He is also a popular clinical psychologist and has received a lot of prominence in this profession. Tallis is a specialist of obsessive disorder, a very efficient psychologist in this field. Author Tallis was born on September 1, 1958, in London. As a novelist, he likes to write detective novels. For writing some of his standalone novels, he uses the pen name of F.R. Tallis. His birth had taken place in the Stoke Newington borough of London. Author Tallis completed his graduation from the London University and obtained his Ph.D in the field of psychology. Immediately after his graduation, Tallis began teaching neuroscience and clinical psychology to the students of King’s College in London. In fact, he is still involved in teaching at the King’s College and manages it along with his other two professions. Tallis began publishing papers and essays on the subjects of psychotherapy history and human behavior in 1998, and since then he has released a few of them successfully. As far as the writing career of author Talliss is concerned, he is particularly popular for writing the Leibermann Papers series. He embarked on this successful novel series in the year 2005. This detective series features the chief character as the Vienna policeman named Oskar Rheinhardt. He is assisted by his acolyte and friend named Max Leibermann, who is depicted as a popular psychiatrist. Both these characters are believed to have historical importance from the time of the turn of 20th century in Vienna, Austria. They used to carry out investigations in imperial Vienna. Tallis has filled the series with rich intrigues, which tend to evoke the atmosphere of the Austro Hungarian Empire’s capital during the years prior to the World War One. All the narratives of this historical series are shown as often enamelling the encounters with some of the great historical personalities such as Gustav Mahler or Freud. Such narrations depict the political and historical events of that time with multiple annotations. With years of experience in psychological treatments, author Tallis has gone on to hold lecturing positions at the Psychiatry Institute, London, along with his teaching jobs as a professor of clinical psychology.