by Jodi Israel
Tue, Feb 02, 2010
#1 New York Times bestselling author, Sherrilyn Kenyon lives a life of extraordinary danger... as does any woman with three sons, a husband, a menagerie of pets and a collection of swords that all of the above have a major fixation with. But when not running interference (or dashing off to the emergency room), she’s found chained to her computer where she likes to play with all her imaginary friends. With over seventeen million copies of her books in print, in over thirty countries, she certainly has a lot of friends to play with too
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by Nola Theiss
Tue, Feb 02, 2010
Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality. He is the author of eleven books, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.
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by Janet Julian
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.
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by Sue Rosenzweig
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
W.H.D. Rouse was one of the great 20th century experts on Ancient Greece, and headmaster of the Perse School, Cambridge, England, for 26 years. Under his leadership the school became widely known for the successful teaching of Greek and Latin as spoken languages. He derived his knowledge of the Greeks not only from his wide studies of classical literature, but also by travelling extensively in Greece. He died in 1950.
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by Sherri Forgash
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Gary Paulsen is one of the most honored writers of contemporary literature for young readers. He has written more than one hundred book for adults and young readers, and is the author of three Newbery Honor titles: Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room. He divides his time among Alaska, New Mexico, Minnesota, and the Pacific.
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by Sherri Forgash
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Justine Larbalestier is the author of Liar and the acclaimed Magic or Madness trilogy. She was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, and now divides her time between Sydney and New York City. She is married to author Scott Westerfeld.
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by Mary Purucker
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.
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by Susan Allison
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
John Claude Bemis began his writing career as a songwriter, and through oldtime country and blues music, began to explore how Southern folklore could become epic fantasy. John lives with his family in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he teaches his favorite books to elementary school students.
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by Erika Kosin
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
This is author Adrian Fogelin's first book for children. "I was moved to write this story of prejudice after an incident in my own neighborhood. I believe strongly in the message of this book." Fogelin is also a librarian and is a fiction reader for the International Quarterly. She lives with her family in Tallahassee, Florida.
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by Carol Kellerman
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Lauren Myracle is the New York Times bestselling author of Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen and The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life, as well as the Internet Girls series (ttyl) and Bliss (Abrams). Lauren lives with her family in Colorado.
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by Sue Rosenzweig
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
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by Mary Purucker
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.
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by Miles Klein
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Lisey's Story and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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by Bette Ammon
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Sarah Waters is the author of Tipping the Velvet, a New York Times Notable Book; Affinity, which won her the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; Fingersmith; and The Night Watch, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize. She has also been named one of Granta's best young British novelists.
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by Nola Theiss
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Carolina De Robertis was raised in England, Switzerland, and California by Uruguayan parents. Her fiction, nonfiction, and literary translations have appeared in ColorLines, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Indiana Review, among others. She is the recipient of a 2008 Hedgebrook Residency for Women Authoring Change, and the translator of the Chilean novella Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra. She lives in Oakland, California, where she is at work on her second novel.
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by Nola Theiss
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Sarah Dessen grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill, graduating with highest honors in Creative Writing. She is the author of several novels, including Someone Like You, Just Listen and Along for the Ride. A motion picture based on her first two books, entitled How to Deal, was released in 2003. She lives in North Carolina.
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by Jean Palmer
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
DOUGLAS PRESTON is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the famed Pendergast series of novels, including such bestselling titles as The Book of the Dead and The Wheel of Darkness, as well as The Relic, which was made into a number one box office hit movie. His solo novels include Jennie, made into a movie by Disney, and the New York Times bestsellers Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy.
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by Francine Levitov
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Philip Roth entered the literary scene with his 1959 story collection, Goodbye, Columbus. When She Was Good is his second full-length novel, published in 1967.
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by Janet Julian
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.
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by Miles Klein
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Legendary author Elmore Leonard is an acclaimed crime and Western writer and the winner of many prestigious awards. He has written more than forty novels, including bestsellers Up in Honey's Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Pagan Babies, and Glitz. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight.
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by Nola Theiss
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Patrick Radden Keefe is a writer who focuses on international security, immigration, espionage, and the globalization of crime. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Slate, and the author of THE SNAKEHEAD: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Doubleday, July 2009), and CHATTER: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005).
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by Nancy Chaplin
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Warren St. John is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of the national bestseller Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.
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by Carol Kellerman
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Julie Schumacher is the author of three books for middle-grade readers. This is her first YA novel. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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by Mary Purucker
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.
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