Jasper Fforde
Three separate interviews in which Jasper Fforde discusses the Thursday Next series, his Nursery Crime novels and Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just.
Abraham Verghese
An interview with Abraham Verghese about his life and writing and in particular about his extraordinary 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, set in 1960s and '70s Ethiopia and 1980s New York.
Martha A Sandweiss
An interview with Martha Sandweiss in which she discusses her book Passing Strange, a biography of Clarence King who lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter named James Todd, married to Ada with whom he had five children.
Amy Greene
Amy Greene talks about her first novel, Bloodroot, which brings her native Appalachia—and the faith and fury of its people—to rich and vivid life.
Name Pronunciation Tomie dePaola: tommy de POW luh
Biography
Tomie dePaola was born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934 to a family of Irish
and Italian background. By the time he could hold a pencil, he knew what his
life's work would be. His determination to create books for children led to
a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the
California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California.
It drove him through the years of teaching, designing greeting cards and
stage sets, and painting church murals until 1965, when he illustrated his
first children's book, Sound, by Lisa Miller for Coward-McCann.
Eventually, freed of other obligations, he plunged full time into both
writing and illustrating children's books.
He names Fra Angelico and Giotto, Georges Rouault, and Ben Shahn as major
influences on his work, but he soon found his own unique style. His
particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of
the most prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor Award
for Strega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal from the Smithsonian
Institution, the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for his
"singular attainment in children's literature," the Catholic
Library Association's Regina Medal for his "continued distinguished
contribution," and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion. He
was also the 1990 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen
Medal for illustration.
Tomie dePaola has published almost 200 children's books in fifteen different
countries. He remains one of the most popular creators of books for
children, receiving more than 100,000 fan letters each year.
Tomie lives in an interesting house in New Hampshire with his four dogs. His
studio is in a large renovated 200-year-old barn.
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