by Nola Theiss
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Richard Yates was born in 1926. The author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Revolutionary Road, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Disturbing the Peace, and The Easter Parade, he was lauded during his lifetime as the foremost novelist of the post-war "age of anxiety". He died in 1992.
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by Mary Purucker
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Love Liu is an adolescent growing up in Urumqui in Xinjiang China during the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution.
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by Nola Theiss
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Deborah Ellis won Canada’s Governor General’s Award in 2000 for her first book, Searching for X. She is also the author of several other books, including Parvana’s Journey, winner of the Jane Addams Award and the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award, given annually by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canadian Booksellers Association. She lives in Ontario, Canada.
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