Mary Purucker was a school librarian at all levels, taught Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature at several universities, has written many reviews for professioal journals,and now works in the Children's Department of a public library.
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Chrisopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fifteen previous novels, including the award-winning Full Dark House, and four other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries, White Corridor, The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, and Ten Second Staircase. He lives in London.
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Bill Pronzini has published sixty novels, including three in collaboration with his wife, novelist Marcia Muller, and twenty-nine in his popular "Nameless Detective" series. Pronzini has received three Shamus Awards, and six nominations for the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and published in nearly thirty countries.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
In his thirty-five-year career, Emmy Award-winning writer Stephen J. Cannell has created more than forty TV series. Among his hits are The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written, including his most recent works, Bad Company and Midnight Runner, has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
RICHARD MONTANARI is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and scores of other national and regional publications. He is the OLMA-winning author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers Kiss of Evil, Deviant Way, and The Violet Hour–all published in more than twenty countries.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Rose Melikan is an academic and a novelist who has published fiction and non-fiction works. This is her debut novel.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME is a new column that will highlight a personal anecdote or memorable experience involving audiobooks. Readers are invited to submit one of their own for possible future publication. If you have one you'd like to share, email it to francine@SoundCommentary.com. We will be happy to hear from you and consider your piece.
C. J. BOX is the author of four novels featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. His debut novel, Open Season, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the prestigious Anthony Award, as well as nominations for the Edgar Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Sat, Jan 24, 2009
Michael Harvey is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the television series Cold Case Files, as well as an Academy Award-nominee for his documentary Eyewitness, and is a former investigative reporter for CBS. He earned a law degree at Duke and a masters in journalism from Northwestern. He alsoowns a bar inChicago.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum books, including Lean Mean Thirteen. She lives in New Hampshire and Florida.
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
Nancy Springer lives in Bonifay, Florida.
Sat, Apr 18, 2009
C. J. Box is the author of five Joe Pickett novels, and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo
Sun, May 31, 2009
M. T. Anderson is the author of several novels for Young Adults, including THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, a National Book Award Winner and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist; FEED, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and two darkly entertaining novels (THIRSTY and BURGER WUSS). M.T. Anderson is the author of several notable picture books, including THE SERPENT CAME TO GLOUCESTER, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline; ME ALL ALONE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes; and a picture book biography, HANDEL WHO KNEW WHAT HE LIKED, also illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. The author teaches at Vermont College's MFA Program in Writing for Children and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sun, May 31, 2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky is the author of more than 60 novels and an Edgar Award winner who has been given the coveted Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In addition to his Lew Fonesca series (for which the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau has officially recognized him as “The Voice of Sarasota”), Kaminsky is also the creator of the critically acclaimed Inspector Rostinkov, Toby Peters, and Abe Lieberman mystery series. He resides with his family naturally enough, in Florida.
Sun, May 31, 2009
C. J. Box is the author of seven Joe Pickett novels and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. His novel Open Season was a New York Times Notable Book. He lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming with his family.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
CHARLIE HUSTON is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Shotgun Rule, The Henry Thompson Trilogy (which includes the Edgar-nominated Six Bad Things), and The Joe Pitt Casebooks.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Ace Atkins earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2001 for his investigation into a forgotten murder of the 1950s that became the basis for his novel White Shadow. His next novel, Wicked City, was based on the true story of “the Wickedest City in America”
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Lincoln Child is the author of Death Match and the bestselling Utopia, as well as co-author, with Douglas Preston, of numerous New York Times Bestsellers (including The Book of the Dead, Dance of Death, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, and Relic). He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
ALAN GARNER is the award-winning author of Elidor, The Owl Service, The Moon of Gomrath, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, and The Stone Book Quartet. He lives in Cheshire, England.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
ANDREW GRANT is a former telecommunications executive. He is the younger brother of Lee Child, author of the New York Times best-selling Jack Reacher novels. He lives in the United Kingdom.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
GERALD KOLPAN was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. He now lives in Philadelphia.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Joe Gores, formerly a private eye, is the author of sixteen other novels, including Hammett, which won Japan’s Falcon Award. He has received three Edgar Awards—one of only two authors to win in three separate categories: Best First Novel, Best Short Story, and Best Episode in a TV Series.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Laurie R. King became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic with the publication of her debut thriller, A Grave Talent. She is the bestselling author of four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the award-winning Mary Russell series, and the bestselling novels A Darker Place, Folly, and Keeping Watch. She lives in northern California. Bantam will publish her next Russell and Holmes mystery in 2010.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, andthe #1 New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He spends his time in California and Florida.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
A Study in Scarlet is the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes and his trusty friend, Dr. Watson.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Peter Abrahams is the bestselling author of Delusion, Nerve Damage, End of Story, Oblivion, The Fan, Behind the Curtain, and Into the Dark as well as Lights Out and Down the Rabbit Hole, for both of which he received Edgar Award nominations. Peter makes his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Donald E. Westlake (1933 - 2008) has written dozens of novels under his own name and a rainbow of pseudonyms. Many of his books have been adapted for film, most notably The Hunter, which became the 1967 noir Point Blank, and the 1999 smash Payback.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Michael Robertson works for a large company with branches in the United States and England. The Baker Street Letters is his first novel and has been optioned by Warner Bros. for television. He lives in Southern California.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Love Liu is an adolescent growing up in Urumqui in Xinjiang China during the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Douglas Preston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert horseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the West. Lincoln Child is a former book editor and systems analyst who has published numerous novels and anthologies.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Lisa Lutz is the author of Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellman Files, a New York Times best-seller, and Curse of the Spellmans, a national best-seller and nominee for the 2008 Edgar® Award for Best Novel. Although she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, the University of Leeds in England, and San Francisco State University, she still does not have a bachelor's degree. Lisa spent most of the 1990s hopping through a string of low-paying odd jobs while writing and rewriting the screenplay Plan B, a mob comedy. After the film was made in 2000, she vowed she would never write another screenplay. A motion picture adaptation of The Spellman Files is in development with Paramount Pictures.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Clive Cussler is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers. Grant Blackwood, a U.S. Navy veteran, spent three years on a guided missile frigate. He is the author of the Briggs Tanner series.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Siobhan Dowd’s novels include A Swift Pure Cry, for which she was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start author, The London Eye Mystery, and Bog Child. She passed away in August of 2007 from breast cancer.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
TREVANIAN (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the best-selling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts, and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
JOSEPH FINDER is the author of several critically acclaimed, bestselling thrillers including Power Play and Killer Instinct. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. His 1883 classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print to this day, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur that cemented his reputation. He wrote an original work, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Michael Crichton's novels include Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show at the same time. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
JAMES W. FUERST spent his teenage years in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and holds an M.F.A from The New School. Huge is his first novel.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. He was the author of the Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Happy Prince and many other works.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Jack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with The Son of the Wolf (1900), a collection of short stories drawn from his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. "The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived, said Alfred Kazin.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
James Patterson is the author of the two most popular detective series of the past decade, featuring Alex Cross and the Women's Murder Club. He has won an Edgar Award--the mystery world's highest honor--and his novels Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider were made into feature films. His lifelong work to promote books and reading is reflected in his new Web site, ReadKiddoRead.com, which helps parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians find the very best children's books for their kids. He lives in Florida. Richard DiLallo is a former advertising creative director. He has had numerous articles published in major magazines. He lives in Manhattan with his wife.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is one of the most famous popular authors of modern times. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland the novelist, poet and travel writer was the author of world famous books such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as this classic and much loved children's poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verse.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Reginald Hill has been widely published both in England and the United States. He received Britain's most coveted mystery writers award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, as well as the Golden Dagger for his Dalziel/Pascoe series. He lives with his wife in Cumbria, England.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Joseph Kanon is the author of four other novels, Los Alamos, The Good German, The Prodigal Spy and Alibi. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling Thursday Next series. He is also the author of the Nursery Crime series.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Clive Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt(R), in 1973. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. Jack du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, and the coauthor with Clive Cussler of four Oregon Files novels. He lives in Vermont.m
Sat, May 01, 2010
Award-winning crime novelist Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing. After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. Check out his website for more detailed (and fascinating) background information www.michaelconnelly.com.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
WALLACE STEGNER (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Anne Rice is the author of twenty-nine books. She lives in Rancho Mirage, California.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Ian Rankin is a worldwide bestselling writer, and has won an Edgar Award for a mystery, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Lee Child is the author of fourteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way, and the #1 bestsellers Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Mark de Castrique grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. Mark is a veteran of the television and film production industry, and he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mark and his wife, Linda, live in Charlotte.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Richard A. Thompson is a former civil engineer and construction manager who traded his hard hat for a laptop and now writes full time.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
M.C. Beaton lives in the Cotswolds with her husband. In addition to the Hamish Macbeth series, she writes the Agatha Raisin mystery series.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his plays. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde lost the case and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Born in South Africa, Peter Temple is one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, and has worked as a journalist, magazine editor, and teacher. He is the author of eight novels, four of which have received the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction. Black Tide is the second title in his celebrated Jack Irish series.
Sat, Jul 31, 2010
Charles Todd is the author of eleven Ian Rutledge mysteries, the first Bess Crawford mystery, and one stand-alone novel. A mother-and-son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch, and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California where she is currently at work on her next novel.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Paul Tremblay has won acclaim for his short fiction, and received two nominations for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, two children, a hairy dog, and a soggy basement, where he is at work on a follow-up to The Little Sleep. His Web site is www.paultremblay.net.
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