"S" Is for Silence is the 19th novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
 In a departure from the series format, this novel is set in alternating chapters both in the "past" of 1953 and the "present" of 1987.
Linda Gillard lives in the Scottish Highlands and has been an actress, journalist and teacher.
 She is the author of seven novels, including STAR GAZING, short-listed in 2009 for "Romantic Novel of the Year" and HOUSE OF SILENCE, which became a Kindle bestseller and was selected by Amazon UK as one of their "Top Ten Best of 2011" in the Indie Author category.
In mid-June 2007 Salman Rushdie, the British Indian novelist and author of the controversial novel "The Satanic Verses", was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II.
 This action brought much controversy around the world in many countries with Muslim majority populations.
 Soon after the news of the knighthood was released protests against the honour were held in Malaysia and in Pakistan where effigies of the writer were publicly burnt.
 On 19 June 2007, governments in both Pakistan and Iran summoned their British ambassadors to officially protest against the award.
 While many groups and individuals have renewed the call to execute Rushdie, the author "is not commenting on the latest threats to his life.
 It is understood he is anxious not to inflame the situation".
 When asked by the Associated Press if his silence was at the request of the British government, Rushdie replied by e-mail stating "The British authorities have not asked me to do or not do anything.
 I have simply chosen to remain out of this storm for the moment.
 And nobody is turning anything down."
 The media noted in July 2007 that Rushdie "has not been seen in public since the 16 June announcement of his knighthood."
 However, he was photographed receiving his knighthood formally the next year at a ceremony which, breaking with tradition, did not announce in advance his attendance.
Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels.
 She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' (""A" Is for Alibi", etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California.
 The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said the strongest influence on her crime novels is author Ross Macdonald.
 Prior to success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies.
To make an argument from silence (Latin: argumentum ex silentio) is to express a conclusion that is based on the absence of statements in historical documents, rather than their presence.
 In the field of classical studies, it often refers to the assertion that an author is ignorant of a subject, based on the lack of references to it in the author's available writings.
Jean-Michel Iribarren (born 13 February 1958) is a French author.
 He is the author of "L'insecte", a monologue in which the AIDS virus speaks and the author denounces the silence that surrounded the death of homosexuals at the beginning of epidemic.
The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism (Japanese: 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ , Hepburn: Jiheishō no Boku ga Tobihaneru Riyū ~Kaiwa no Dekinai Chūgakusei ga Tsuzuru Uchinaru Kokoro~ ) is a book written in 2005 by Japanese author Naoki Higashida, a then-13-year-old boy with autism.
 It was originally published in Japan in 2007 and the English translation by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, author David Mitchell, was published in 2013.
 The book became a "New York Times" bestseller and a "Sunday Times" bestseller for hardback nonfiction in the UK.
 Since then it has been translated into over 30 other languages.
Anita Doron (born June 3, 1974) is a Ukrainian/Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, author, and a 2010 TED Fellow.
 Doron is best known for her adaptation of "The Lesser Blessed" (2012), a 1996 novel written by Canadian author Richard Van Camp.
 Her credits include music videos for several artists, as well as her feature films "The End of Silence" (2006), "Late Fragment" (2007), and "Europa, East" (2010).
Siba'i Ahmad Uthman (born 1938) is a Saudi journalist, author and short story writer.
 He was born in 1938 in the Sudan and studied at the College of Arts in Khartoum before commencing a career in journalism.
 Among Uthman's works are several volumes of short stories including "Silence and the Walls" and "Circles in the Book of Time".
 His short story "Silence and the Walls" appeared in English translation in a 1988 anthology of Arabian literature edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Silence (Russian: Тишина , "Tishina " , subtitled "Lyric poems", Лирические поэмы) is a third poetry collection by Konstantin Balmont, first published in August 1898 in Saint Petersburg, by Alexey Suvorin's Publishing House.
 Following "In Boundlessness" (1895), it features 77 poems, most of which were based upon the author's impressions of his 1896-1897 European journey which took him to Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain, where he read Russian poetry in Oxford.
 The book's epigraph, "There is some kind of universal hour of silence" (Есть некий час всемирного молчанья) comes from Fyodor Tyutchev's poem "Videniye" (The Vision, Видение).

Question: Who is the father of the author of "S" Is for Silence?
Answer: C. W. Grafton