Educated on four continents, Betsy Woodman has worked as a research editor, music director, teacher, software engineer, and evaluator of youth programs. She reviewed for Kliatt for thirty-four years. Her interests in cross-cultural arts range from Scottish music to Bollywood movies.
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Audiobook listeners looking for Spanish language audiobooks, especially for Holiday gift ideas, will find lots of outstanding titles here. This excellent article appeared originally in the May 2007 issue of KLIATT.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
AMITAV GHOSH is the internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Glass Palace, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. Ghosh divides his time between Kolkata and Goa, India, and Brooklyn, New York.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the huge international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and The Sunday Philosophy Club series. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of Botswana and at Edinburgh University. He lives in Scotland.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent for Time magazine, he has also been published in the Financial Times. He lives in Mumbai, India.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Apart from having written Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), was also a mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 and was wildly popular for his poems, short stories, novels, and children's books. As the British Empire waned, he was dismissed as a "jingoistic imperialist," but in more recent times his reputation has been at least partly rehabilitated. In 1990, for example, Reader's Digest included Kim on a list of "The World's Best Reading," and for those who can accept its old-fashioned language and world view, the book still offers mystery, fun, and a kaleidoscopic view of India in the late 19th century
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Louisa lived 1832-1888. Little Women first came out in 1868. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts. When Louisa was thirty-five, her publisher asked her to write a book for girls. Thus, she wrote Little Women, which is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. In all, Louisa published over thirty books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father.
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