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.
Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life.
Her first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a 1998 Newbery Honor
Book. Levine's other books include Dave At Night, an ALA Notable Book and
Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of
Bamarre; and her Princess Tales books: The Princess Test, The
Fairy's Mistake, Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep, Cinderellis
and the Glass Hill, For Biddle's Sake and The Fairy's Return.
She is also the author of the picture book Betsy Who Cried Wolf,
illustrated by Scott Nash.
Gail, her husband, David, and their Airedale, Baxter, live in a
two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.
In Her Own Words...
"I grew up in New York City. In elementary school I was a charter member of
the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school my poems were published in an
anthology of student poetry. I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act
and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. In college, I was a
Philosophy major, and my prose style was very dry and dull! My interest in the
theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David
wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical,
Spacenapped that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
"My painting brought me to writing for children in earnest. I took a
class in writing and illustrating children's books and found that I was much
more interested in the writing than in the illustrating.
"Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find
work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and
satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing
better today than they might have done if not for me."
This biography was last updated on 06/13/2000.
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