Pat Dole holds an undergraduate degree in English and an MLS. She has conducted workshops and written 2 hardcover and 5 softcover publications, as well as articles and reviews. She was born loving to read.
Sun, Oct 26, 2008
Ethan Canin is the author of For Kings and Planets, The Palace Thief, Blue River, and Emperor of Air. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the University of Iowa’s Workshop. He lives in California and Iowa.
Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received several awards, including Brazil's Sacatar Artist's Fellowship and the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. Her short stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, the Indiana Review, the Missouri Review, and the O. Henry Prize Story Collection 2005.
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
David Ebershoff is the author of two novels, Pasadena and The Danish Girl, and a short-story collection, The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award, and has been translated into ten languages to critical acclaim. Ebershoff has taught creative writing at New York University and Princeton and is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. For many years he was the publishing director of the Modern Library, and he is currently an editor-at-large for Random House. He lives in New York City.
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Morris Gleitzman has been a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and finally, a children's book author. He lives in Australia.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Pat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Union St, her first novel, was published by Virago in 1982 to huge critical acclaim. Barker won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993 and the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Durham.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Hillary Jordan grew up in Texas and Oklahoma and received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Mudbound, her first novel, was awarded the 2006 Bellwether Prize, founded by Barbara Kingsolver to recognize literature of social responsibility.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
English journalist and author, Butcher has served in Africa as a war correspondent.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Haven Kimmel was born and raised in Indiana, the locus of her bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana. She has also written two previous novels The Solace of Leaving Early and Something Rising (Light and Swift), as well as the memoir She Got Up Off the Couch.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
This novel is the 10th entry in McCall Smith's internationally best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Henry James described his horror classic as a simple ghost story. Noting that nothing "The Master" wrote was ever simple, some critics point to this work as a tale told by a neurotic, sexually repressed, unreliable narrator. There's plenty of room for both points of view.
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Reza Aslan is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and Senior Fellow at the Orfalae Center for Global and International Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara. His first book, No god but God, has been translated into thirteen languages and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award.
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
OLEN STEINHAUER’s widely acclaimed Eastern European crime series, which he was inspired to write while on a Fullbright fellowship, is a two-time Edgar Award finalist and has been shortlisted for the Anthony, the Macavity, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, and the Barry awards. Film rights to The Tourist have been optioned by Warner Brothers for George Clooney. Raised in Virginia, Steinhauer lives with his family in Budapest, Hungary.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Colson Whitehead was born in New York City. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the QPB New Voices Award and was an Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award finalist. His second novel, John Henry Days, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. Whitehead lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Adrian McKinty is the critically acclaimed author of Dead I Well May Be, the award-winning The Dead Yard, The Bloomsday Dead, and Hidden River. McKinty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at Oxford University. After ten years in Colorado, he currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
TIMOTHY EGAN is a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of five books and the recipient of several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
R. A. Scotti is the author of three previous works of nonfiction, including Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal–Building St. Peter’s and Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, and four novels. She lives in New York City.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Jane Goodall is a featured speaker throughout the world. A UN Messenger of Peace, she is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, a global nonprofit that empowers individuals to take informed and passionate action to improve the environment for all living things.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Jon Franklin is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, among numerous other awards. He was a science writer for the Baltimore Evening Sun and is now a journalism professor at the University of Maryland. He is also the author of The Molecules of the Mind a New York Times Book of the Year.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religious affairs, including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation; and two memoirs, Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. In February 2008 she was awarded the "TED" prize ("Technology, Entertainment, Design:" ideas worth spreading) and is currently working with TED on a major international project to launch and propagate a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. It is to be signed in the fall of 2009 by a thousand religious and secular leaders.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
David Lucas studied illustration at the Royal College of Art. His books have been translated into seven languages.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
William Shakespeare, believed to have been born on April 23, 1564, died on his birthday, in 1616.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Ken Auletta has written the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker since 1992. He is the author of ten books, including four national bestsellers. These include Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman, and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies. In naming him America's premier media critic, the Columbia Journalism Review said, "no other reporter has covered the new communications revolution as thoroughly as has Auletta."
Sat, May 01, 2010
MARCIA MULLER has written many novels and short stories. Her novel WOLF IN THE SHADOWS won the Anthony Boucher Award. The recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award--their highest accolade--she lives in northern California with her husband, mystery writer Bill Pronzini. m
Sat, May 01, 2010
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American poet, novelist, and journalist, whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include the acclaimed The Poet Slave of Cuba, which was named an ALA Best Book for Adults, a Bank Street College of Education Best Book, and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon book, among other honors; and Tropical Secrets. Margarita lives with her husband in Northern California.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir West of Kabul, East of New York, co-author with Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The Other Side of the Sky, and has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks. Ansary is director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Ansary is the director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop and writes for Encarta.com, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
SEAN CARROLL is a professor of molecular biology and genetics and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the author of The Making of the Fittest and Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
SUSAN WILSON is the author of Beauty—a modern retelling of Beauty And The Beast which was made into a CBS TV movie—as well as four other novels. She lives on Martha's Vineyard.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an essayist, poet, philosopher, and anti-slavery activist. Among his other notable books are A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. He died of tuberculosis and he is buried in his family's plot near the graves of his friends Hawthorne, Alcott, Emerson, and Channing on Author's Ridge in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
With the aplomb of a Shakespearean actor, author Pullman performs his retelling and reinterpretation of Jesus' life, changing tones, voice levels, and accents to portray his characters, from the smooth persuasiveness of the stranger to the coarse comments of the ordinary people.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Miranda Carter is the author of Anthony Blunt: His Lives, which won the Orwell Prize for political writing and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Award, and was chosen as one of The New York Times Book Review’s seven Best Books of 2002. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Jonathan Kellerman has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to more than thirty bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher's Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives. He is the author of numerous essays, short stories, scientific articles, two children's books, and three volumes of psychology, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children, as well as the lavishly illustrated With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor for the New York Times from 2001-2007--the first woman to have held that position. She currently writes a column for the Time's Op-Ed page twice weekly.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including, most recently, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His books for the general reader include the classic A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe in a Nutshell, and A Briefer History of Time. He lives in Cambridge, England. www.hawking.org.uk Leonard Mlodinow is a physicist at Caltech and the bestselling author of The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives, Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace, and Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life. He also wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation. He lives in South Pasadena, California. www.its.caltech.edu/~len
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Linda Fairstein is America's foremost legal expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. She led the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for twenty-five years. Her eleven previous Alexandra Cooper novels have been critically acclaimed international bestsellers, translated into more than a dozen languages.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime fiction.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
JOSEPH M. MARSHALL III was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and holds a Ph.D. from the reservation university, which he helped to establish. The award-winning author of ten books, he has also contributed to various publications and written several screenplays. His first language is Lakota, he handcrafts primitive Lakota bows and arrows, and he is a specialist in wilderness survival. His work as a cultural and historical consultant can be seen and heard on Turner Network Television and the Dreamworks epic television miniseries ''Into the West.'' He has won an Audie Award, Earphones Award, ''Nammy'' Award, and was named Best American Indian Fiction Writer by True West magazine in 2009.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Paul Greenberg's seafood writing has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, GQ, and many other publications. His 2005 New York Times Magazine article on Chilean sea bass received the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Award for excellence in food journalism, and he has received both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a Food and Society Policy Fellowship.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
IRIS JOHANSEN is the best-selling author of Blood Game, Deadlock, Dark Summer, Silent Thunder (with Roy Johansen), Pandora’s Daughter, Quicksand, Killer Dreams, On the Run, Countdown, Firestorm, Fatal Tide, Dead Aim, No One to Trust and more.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
John le Carré was born in 1931 and lives in Cornwall, England. His eighteen novels have been translated into thirty-seven languages and include The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, Single & Single, and his most recent book, The Constant Gardner.
Sun, May 01, 2011
Jeffrey Siger is a retired attorney who now splits his time between New York and his adopted home of Mykonos, Greece. Prey on Patmos is the third in his Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series. The first in the series, Murder in Mykonos, was the #1 best selling English-language novel in Greece and his best-selling second in the series, Assassins of Athens, was called “international police procedural writing at its best” (Booklist, starred review). The Greek press has described him as a “prognosticator” of Greece’s societal unrest and attitudes.
Sun, May 01, 2011
ALICE HOFFMAN is the acclaimed author of twenty-nine works of fiction, including The Story Sisters, The Third Angel, Practical Magic, Here on Earth, The Ice Queen, Turtle Moon, Illumination Night, and Blackbird House. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and published in more than one hundred foreign editions.
Sun, May 01, 2011
Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in The New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and on The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. Three of her short stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories volumes. She is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College.
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Author Peter Firstbrook has researched thoroughly the Luo tribe of Kenya, to which the Obamas belong, from its first migration from the Sudan to Kenya to the present day, using not only written records and oral histories but also many interviews with current family members.
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
This classic SF story's characters and their actions definitely date back to the 1950s era, with its cigarette-smoking and door-to-door salesmen; and the eerie plot could have been right out of the classic television show The Twilight Zone.
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
In her pleasant, semi-voiced narration C.J. Critt catches the tones of Southern speech in the dialogue without overdoing or faking the accent and makes a convincing storyteller
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Narrator Jayne Entwistle, a Los Angeles based actor, is superb as she inhabits the various quirky characters, from wealthy landowners to ordinary villagers, in this witty and lighthearted tale.
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
... this book is a riveting and important work of history and sociology, emphasizing an era which should never be forgotten. Narrator Robin Miles is perfect.
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“The action switches between Tsarist Russia in the early twentieth century and the Soviet Union just prior to the beginning of World War II, affording fascinating pictures of Nicholas and Alexandra in their milieu and Stalin and the Russian people under Communism.”
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Lavish depictions of nineteenth century grandeur--clothing, servants, multi-course meals, fine horses, etc.-- embellish the romantic tale.”
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“As the complicated plot switches back and forth from present day Alaska and California to Old Sam's early life before and after World War II, it all gives a vivid picture of Alaskan history, culture, industries, and terrain.”
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
Piet Hoffman, once arrested for drug use in Sweden, has switched from the crime of possession to redemption by infiltrating the Middle European drug lords' empire and acting as a police informer.
Fri, Dec 02, 2011
Ralph Cosham’s dignified semi-voiced narration brings Holmes and Dr. Watson to life in this chronicle of the great detective's career, published in 1894
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“Descriptions of the lovely Auvers countryside and Van Gogh's riveting and glorious artwork, as well as sympathetic, believable characters enrich a somber, fact-based narrative, whose stately prose is given a dignified and empathetic reading by Luis Moreno.”
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“A superb reading by Cassandra Campbell makes this tale of star-crossed lovers exceptional.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Kate Reading's excellent semi-voiced narration differentiates the characters skillfully....”
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