Janet Julian was a high school English teacher forthirty-five years and a KLIATT reviewer for thirty-two. She retired in 2001 and gives audiobooks to those friends who still commute.
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Francois-Marie Arouet (Pen name: Voltaire; 1694-1778) spent his life both delighting and annoying his contemporaries. His satire was aimed mostly at religion and politics, sending him into exile for 23 years and into jail from time to time. An enemy of tyranny, Voltaire was a genius of the Enlightment.
Sun, Nov 02, 2008
The author of more than thirty books, Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Among his best-known works are Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He has written for the theater and the cinema, including the screenplay for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. In 2000, Mr. Bradbury was honored by the National Book Foundation with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Michael Pearce has written two previous mysteries starring Sandor Seymour, A Dead Man in Istanbul and A Dead Man in Trieste. He has also penned several novels in his award-winning Marmur Zapt series, including The Face in the Cemetery and Death of an Effendi.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known for his blank-verse epics but was a much more prolific writer, producing shorter poems and nonfiction prose.
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Denise Mina is the author of The Dead Hour, Field of Blood, Deception, and the Garnethill trilogy, the fi rst installment of which won her the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best fi rst crime novel. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Michael Pearce has written two previous mysteries starring Sandor Seymour, A Dead Man in Istanbul and A Dead Man in Trieste. He has also penned several novels in his award-winning Marmur Zapt series, including The Face in the Cemetery and Death of an Effendi.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Thomas Paine was born in1737 at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker. He immigrated to America in 1774. There he published works criticising the slavery and supporting American independence. He became very popular but returned to England where he became involved in the French Revolution. After that he returned to America where he died in 1802.
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Germany and later became a citizen of Switzerland. As a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought, he wrote many novels, stories, and essays that bear a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Bead Game.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Per Petterson won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into more than thirty languages and was named a Best Book of 2007 by The New York Times.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Jason Goodwin is the author of The Janissary Tree and Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire among other books of nonfiction.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Author Jon Talton’s writing was developed over 20 years as a journalist, working for newspapers in San Diego, Denver, Dayton, Cincinnati, Charlotte, and Phoenix. Jon’s columns have appeared in newspapers throughout North America. Before journalism, Jon worked as an ambulance medic in the inner city of Phoenix. He now lives in Seattle, WA.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
URSULA K. LE GUIN is the author of numerous short stories, essays, volumes of poetry, books for children, and novels. Among her honors are a National Book Award, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Howard Vursell Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Bernard Knight is the author of the Crown John Mysteries series and is a member of The Medieval Murderers.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Katharine Mcmahon is the author of The Alchemist’s Daughter. She is a former English teacher, writing instructor, and actress.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
L.A. Theatre Works, founded in 1974, produces audio plays, both classical and contemporary.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Bernard Cornwell is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Saxon Tales, as well as the Richard Sharpe novels, among many others. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Henning Mankell is the prizewinning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, which were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European Crime Fiction Star Award) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Kathleen Kent is an actual descendent of her fictionalized protagonist. This is her first novel.
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Authentic 18th-century Chinese detective novel; Dee and associates solve three interlocked cases: The Case of the Double Murder at Dawn, The Case of the Strange Corpse, and The Case of the Poisoned Bridge.
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
LINDSEY DAVIS is the author of the long-running series of historical mysteries featuring Marcus Didius Falco. She was the winner of the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger and her novels are bestsellers around the globe. She lives in London.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
British mystery writers Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, and C. J. Sansom have collaborated on this fourth group of stories based on a common thread, this time a book of prophecies.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Celia Rees is the author of many books for young readers including the bestsellers Witch Child, Sorceress, and Pirates! Celia lives in Leamington Spa, England with her husband and teenage daughter.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Dan Waddell is a journalist and author who lives in west London with his son. He writes about the media and popular culture, and has published ten non-fiction books, including the bestselling Who Do You Think You Are?, which tied in with a popular BBC TV series on genealogy. The Blood Detective is his first novel.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
A writer, book reviewer, and the author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Salon.com, among other media outlets. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Stephen Karam is co-author of Columbinus (2006 Helen hayes nomination), which ran at New York Theatre Workshop following a co-production by Round House/Perseverance Theatres. His last two plays, Speech & Debate and Girl on Girl, debuted as workshop production at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. He is currently working on a new play commission for Roundabout Theatre Company, and opera libretto and a screenplay adaptation of Speech & Debate for Overture Films.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
C. J. Sansom was a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. He is a bestselling novelist in the United Kingdom, he has a PhD in history.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Roy Porter was, until his retirement, Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He died in 2002.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Peter Robinson's award-winning novels have been named a Best-Book-of-the-Year by Publisher's Weekly, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Page-Turner-of-the-Week by People magazine. Robinson was born a raised in Yorkshire but has lived in North America for over twenty-five years. He now divides his time between North America and the U.K.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
LINDSEY DAVIS is the author of the internationally bestselling Falco novels. She lives in London, England.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Professor Bernard Knight CBE Bernard Knight has been writing for over forty-eight years. He has written crime novels, 'straight' historical novels, and many historical mysteries, as well as biography, medical and medico-legal textbooks, popular books on forensic medicine and on the history of medicine. In addition, he has written many radio and television drama and documentary scripts, as well as acting as technical advisor and presenter of several television series. He is a founding member of the 'Medieval Murderers' promotion group and for many years has regularly reviewed crime books for the Tangled Web site (www.twbooks.co.uk). He is also both a physician and a barrister.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of 18 critically and popularly acclaimed teen and middle-grade novels. She has won the ALA Best Books for Young Adults award, an International Reading Association Children's Book Award,. and the Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Readers. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
A.N. Wilson, Oxford Educated novelist, biography, and journalist, is a Fellow of the Royal Soceity of Literature. He is an award-winning biographer (of John Milton, C.S. Lewis, the apostle Paul, Hilaire Beloc, Leon Tolstory and Jesus Christ) and a celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Sidney Blumenthal is a former aide to President Bill Clinton and a widely published American journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. He has written for The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Steven Saylor is the author of the New York Times best-seller Roma, as well as the previous books in the Roma sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder. His books have been published around the world, in twenty languages and been bestsellers in many of them. He divides his time between Berkeley, California and Austin Texas.
Sat, May 01, 2010
John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by the (London) Times as one of the 100 best crime novels of the century. His first novel featuring DI Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Beverle Graves Myers fell in love with opera at age nine during a marionette production of Rigoletto. A Kentucky native, she studied history at the University of Louisville and went on to earn a degree in medicine. After a career in psychiatry, she devoted herself to writing full-time. Beverle is the author of the Baroque mystery series featuring Tito Amato. www.beverlegravesmyers.com
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802–1870), French novelist and playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper’s daughter and one of Napoleon’s generals. He moved to Paris in 1823 to make his fortune in the theater, and at twenty-eight he was one of the leading literary figures of his day. His complete works were eventually to fill over three hundred volumes, and his stories made him the best-known Frenchman of his age.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
S. J. PARRIS (pseudonym of British journalist Stephanie Merritt) is a contributing journalist for various newspapers and magazines including the Observer, the Guardian, and the New Statesman.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
MARK TWAIN (1835–1910), was born Samuel L. Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri. His masterpieces, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), are not only classics of humorous writing but also a graphic picture of nineteenth-century America.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Allan Mallinson is a former infantry and cavalry officer of thirty-five years' service. He is also the author of Light Dragoons, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he commanded, and which has recently been revised and updated. As well as writing on defense matters for The Times (UK) and formerly for the Daily Telegraph (UK), he is a regular reviewer for The Times, the Spectator and the Literary Review.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Mertz aka Barbara Michaels) earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. She was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. Mr Wahlöö, who died in 1975, was a reporter for several Swedish newspapers and magazines and wrote numerous radio and television plays, film scripts, short stories, and novels. Maj Sjöwall is also a poet.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Bernard Cornwell is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Agincourt; the bestselling Saxon Tales, which include The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song; and the Richard Sharpe novels, among many others. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), despite an impoverished childhood and little formal education, achieved lasting artistic and popular success with the novels Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, all of which were originally published in serial form.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
HENRY FIELDING (1707- 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess. His writings reflect his ongoing preoccupation with fraud, sham, and masks. Tom Jones is considered to be his greatest work.
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