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Steal Away by Linda Hall
Linda Hall is the author of eight novels, including the bestselling Margaret's Peace, and seven nonfiction works. A fiction writing teacher and former journalist and English teacher, she grew up in a pastor's home in New Jersey and attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where she met her Canadian husband, Rik. The couple live in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and have two grown children.
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*Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint is one of the The Modern Library's "100 Best Novels" of the twentieth century.
*Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen
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.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is a New York writer of novels and short stories. This highly controversial novel was his third, published in 1986. Once condemned for its graphic violence, it has achieved cult status.
Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
DANIEL GOLEMAN is the author of the international bestsellers Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence, and the co-author of the acclaimed business bestseller Primal Leadership. He was a science reporter for the New York Times, was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and received the American Psychological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his media writing. He lives in the Berkshires.
This Town by Sidney Blumenthal
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.
Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag
Tami Hoag began her writing career at the age of nine with the self-published, self-illustrated third-grade hit Black Pony. With thirteen consecutive Times bestsellers to her credit, including The Alibi Man, Prior Bad Acts, Dark Horse, and Kill The Messenger, Hoag is published in more than twenty languages worldwide. Her first thriller, Night Sins, was made into a two-part mini-series in 1997, and continues to air frequently on cable networks more than a decade later.
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, is the author of Newbery Honor winners Feathers and Show Way, Miracle’s Boys (recipient of a Coretta Scott King Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Locomotion and Hush (both National Book Award finalists), among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Human rights campaigner and British author Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person. Her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, received five starred reviews.
Three Wrecked Men by Lysa Williams
LYSA WILLIAMS resides in New York City with her daughter. Three Wrecked Men is her second novel. Her first novel, Soundless, is also a Blackstone Audio, Inc. production.
Our Times by A.N. Wilson
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.
Stick Fly by Lydia Diamond
Lydia R. Diamond is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her plays include The Gift Horse (anthologized in Seven Black Plays), Voyeurs de Venus, The Inside, and Stage Black. Her adaptation of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre and won the Black Arts Alliance Image Award for best new play. Lydia has taught at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and Loyola University. She is currently on the faculty at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From Shakespeare with Love by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, believed to have been born on April 23, 1564, died on his birthday, in 1616.
*The Tudors by G.J. Meyer
G. J. Meyer is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow with an M.A. in English literature from the University of Minnesota, a onetime journalist, and holder of Harvard University’s Neiman Fellowship in Journalism. He has taught at colleges and universities in Des Moines, St. Louis, and New York. His books include A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, Executive Blues, and The Memphis Murders, winner of an Edgar Award for nonfiction from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Goring-on-Thames, England.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
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.
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD is a philosopher and mechanic. He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a postdoctoral fellow on its Committee on Social Thought. Currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, VA.
The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten
Jason Kersten is the author of Journal of the Dead. A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. He has appeared as a guest and commentator on CNN, Fox News, TruTv, NPR, and numerous regional TV and radio shows. His works have been optioned for both film and television. In 1996, he earned a masters of science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York City
Everything for a Dog by Ann Martin
ANN M. MARTIN is the author of the Baby-sitters club and Main Street series; the novels Belle Teal, A Corner of the Universe (winner of the Newbery Honor), Here Today, and On Christmas Eve, as well as the Doll People novels (written with Laura Godwin and illustrated by Brian Selznick); and the novels P. S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More, written with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York with her beloved dog, Sadie, whose mother was a stray, and several rescued cats.
Mud City by Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis has spent extensive periods of time in refugee camps in Pakistan, working with refugees and researching her stories. She is the winner of the Governor General's Award in Canada, their equivalent of the Carnegie Medal.
Googled by Ken Auletta
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."
Breathless by Dean Koontz
Amazingly prolific and relentlessly suspenseful, Dean Koontz can be counted on for chilling, sometimes gory stories that occasionally overlap genres. His novels can jump from straightforward crime to sci-fi to horror, but the one thing he's consistent about is delivering nail-biting yarns that have kept fans reading for more than three decades.
The 10 P.M. Question by Kate DiGoldi
Award-winning New Zealand author Kathleen De Goldi has written both short stories and young adult novels. De Goldi was also the 2001 New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate.
The Renaissance in a Nutshell by Peter Whitfield
Peter Whitfield is an historian and a poet. His books include A Universe of Books: Readings in World Literature and Landmarks in Western Science, New Found Lands – Maps in the History of Exploration. He is a keen cyclist and has written books on his sport.
Generosity by Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of nine novels. The Echo Maker (FSG, 2006) won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman
David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at the Washington Post, where he previously served as White House correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He is the author of The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia.
Stardust by Joseph Kanon
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
Zoobreak by Gordon Korman
Canadian children’s author and former seventh-grade English teacher, Gordon Korman, now lives on Long Island, NY and has written more than 55 children’s books. Check out his website www.gordonkorman.com for more fun information.
The Silent Hour by Michael Koryta
Michael Koryta's first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was published when he was just twenty-one and was followed by Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave, and a stand-alone mystery, Envy the Night. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he has worked as a newspaper reporter and private investigator.
*Alexander the Great by Paul Cartledge
Professor of Greek history and chairman of the classics faculty at Cambridge University, Cartledge is acknowledged to be the world's leading expert on the subject of Sparta and the Spartans. He was the academic consultant for the PBS-BBC series The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization.
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Gwen Cooper is the author of the novel Diary of a South Beach Party Girl. A Miami native, she spent five years working in nonprofit administration, marketing, and fundraising. She coordinated volunteer activities on behalf of organizations including Pet Rescue, the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, the Miami Rescue Mission, and His House Children’s Home, and initiated Reading Pen Pals, an elementary school-based literacy program in Miami’s Little Haiti. Gwen currently lives in Manhattan with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her three perfect cats–Scarlett, Vashti, and Homer--who aren’t impressed with any of it.
Hell House by Richard Mattheson
Richard Matheson is The author of I Am Legend, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. He also wrote for the television classic show Twilight Zone.
Sent by Maragret Peterson Haddix
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
Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves is the author of presidential bestsellers, including President Nixon and President Kennedy, acclaimed as the best nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine. A syndicated columnist and winner of the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award, he lives in New York and Los Angeles.
*The Information Officer by Mark Mills
Mark Mills is the author of The Savage Garden, a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom, and Amagansett, which was published in a dozen countries and received the John Creasy Memorial Dagger Award. A graduate of Cambridge University, he lives in Oxford with his wife and their two children.
Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill
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.
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1902-86) lived in Berlin from 1928 to 1933 and immigrated to the United States in 1939. Translator, biographer, novelist, and playwright, Isherwood is the author of over twenty books.
Skellig by David Almond
Skellig, my first children's novel, came out of the blue, as if it had been waiting a long time to be told. It seemed to write itself…. –David Almond.
Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb
J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for Nora Roberts, New York Times-bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 300 million copies of her books in print.
A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein
Lauren Grodstein is the author of the short story collection The Best of Animals and a novel, Reproduction is the Flaw of Love. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, and French. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
lice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, Canada and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes in Canada, the United States and England. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
Tim Tharp lives in Oklahoma where he writes novels and teaches in the Humanities Department at Rose State College. In addition to earning a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. from Brown University, Tim Tharp has been a factory hand, construction laborer, psychiatric aid, long-distance hitchhiker, and record store clerk. His first novel, Falling Dark (Milkweed Press), was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Knights of the Hill Country (Knopf Books for Young Readers) is his first novel for young adults and was named to the American Library Association's Best Books of 2007 list. The Spectacular Now was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.
Rules of Vengeance by Christopher Reich
Christopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Deception, Numbered Account, and The Patriots Club, which won the International Thriller Writers award for best novel in 2006.
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Identity Theft by Robert J. Sawyer
ROBERT J. SAWYER has written eighteen novels, and his short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. He has won forty-one national and international awards, most prominently the 1995 Nebula Award, the 2003 Hugo Award, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.