by Betsy Woodman
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
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.
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by Nola Theiss
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
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
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by Pat Dole
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."
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by Sue Rosenzweig
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
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.
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by Irene Bessette
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
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.
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