Shirley Fetherolf has worked as a library media specialist in six states, teaching grades K-12. She presently works at an award-winning magnet high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, Mirror Mirror, and the Wicked Years series, which includes Wicked, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men. Wicked, now a beloved classic, is the basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
JONAH LEHRER is editor at large for Seed magazine and the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. A graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes Scholar, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and has written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He edits the "Mind Matters" blog for Scientific American, and writes his own highly regarded blog, "The Frontal Cortex."
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Beth Kephart is the author of House of Dance and Undercover. Her forthcoming novel, Nothing But Ghosts, will be released in Summer 2009. She was nominated for the National Book Award for her book A Slant of Sun. Her writing has been anthologized many times and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Baltimore Sun. In 2000 she received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
Wed, Dec 17, 2008
Charlie Higson is an acclaimed comedy writer, producer, and actor. His previous novels written for adults include Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen, Full Whack, Happy Now, and King of the Ants. He lives in London.
Shannon Hale is the author of a number of books for children, including her stunning debut novel Goose Girl. Her novel Princess Acadmey won the Newbery Honor. Shannon lives in America.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
Liz Gallagher is a former children’s bookseller and early education teacher. She received her MFA in writing for children from Vermont College. This is her first novel. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
Christina Meldrum is a former attorney who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Madapple is her first novel.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
Lewis Buzbee’s favorite time at the library is a rainy, gray afternoon, because you can spend forever there. He’s been writing since he was fifteen, and his most recent book is The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. A native Californian, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter and is working on a new book about Charles Dickens.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
Loretta Ellsworth is the author of the acclaimed middle-grade novel The Shrouding Woman. A former schoolteacher and mother of four grown children, Loretta lives in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
L. A. MEYER is the author of the Bloody Jack Adventures series, which has been praised for its spirited heroine and rousing sense of adventure. Mr. Meyer lives in Corea, Maine.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
James Bamford is the author of The Puzzle Palace, a national bestseller when it was first published and now regarded as a classic. He was until recently Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and has written investigative cover stories for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
Fri, Jul 24, 2009
Ron Suskind is the author of The Globe and Mail and New York Times bestsellers The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, and A Hope in the Unseen. From 1993 to 2000 he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He currently writes for various national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. Suskind lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind, and their two sons.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Valerie Frankel has been an editor for Mademoiselle magazine and is a contributor to Self, Glamour, and Parenting magazines. She has written nine novels and this is her first memoir. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
A. E. W. MASON (1865–1948) was born at Dulwich, England. A graduate of Oxford, he was first a professional actor before becoming a playwright. When he turned to writing fiction, he proved to be a versatile and prolific author, excelling at historical fiction, adventure fiction, social melodrama, and crime fiction. He is perhaps best remembered today for his tales of adventure and detection, often set in exotic locales.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
AJ Butcher has been aware of the power of words since avoiding a playground beating at age seven because he "told good stories." He's been trying to do the same thing ever since. He currently works at a girls' grammar school in Dorset, England.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Includes: King Midas and the Golden Touch and Elephant’s Child. Michael Cain’s narration brings to life greedy King Midas who soon comes to realize that there are some things in life more precious than gold. Jack Nicholson narrates the second story, Rudyard Kipling’s Elephant’s Child, which portrays the tale of a very curious baby elephant. This collection is perfect for young listeners.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world's "100 living geniuses." His website company, Optimnem, has provided foreign language instruction to thousands around the globe and his last book, the New York Times bestseller Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, has been translated into 18 languages. He lives in Avignon, in the south of France.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
MARGOT BERWIN earned her MFA from the New School in 2005. Her stories have appeared on Nerve.com, in the New York Press, and in the anthology The Future of Misbehavior. She worked in advertising for many years and lives in New York City with a killer collection of plants.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) was born in England, and he attended Cambridge University. He spent much of his life traveling and lived in Paris, New York, Mexico, Los Angeles, Canada, and Italy, among other places. He is the author of numerous works, including Ultramarine and Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
ANTHONY STRONG is the author of two previous novels written under the name Anthony Capella--The Wedding Officer and The Food of Love, which has been translated into 22 languages. He lives in the United Kingdom. (from the author's Anthony Capella website)
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Robin Wasserman enjoys writing about high school -- but wakes up every day grateful that she doesn't have to relive it. She recently abandoned the beaches and boulevards of Los Angeles for the chilly embrace of the East Coast, as all that sun and fun gave her too little to complain about. She now lives and writes in New York City, which she claims to love for its vibrant culture and intellectual life. In reality, she doesn't make it to museums nearly enough, and actually just loves the city for its pizza, its shopping, and the fact that at three A.M. you can always get anything you need -- and you can get it delivered. Wasserman is also the author of another teen series called The Seven Deadly Sins.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
With a background in cultural anthropology and ESL-teaching, award-winning author Laura Resau has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Sharon Draper, a two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winner and popular conference speaker. lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years.
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