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.
I was born in Washington, D. C., where my father was a high government
official in the Truman administration. Later, we moved to the West Indies where
he was president of a bank. He was also a child molester. The juxtaposition of
this double life---seemingly perfect in public, dark and scary in private---is
what I write about in my memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I
Remember You. In my second memoir, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through
Sexual Addiction, I show how I replicated this double life as an adult. In
public, all seemed fine---I attended Boston University, worked on Capitol Hill,
was married. But this image was a mask that hid my secret world of sexual
encounters with dangerous men, a shadowy life of obsession.
From about 1980 to 1992, I tried to tell my story as fiction. Looking back, I
realize that the five or six (unpublished) novels I wrote during this time
lacked an authentic voice. It was my therapist, ironically, who finally
suggested I write my own story. At first I resisted. I had never considered
nonfiction and thought I had nothing to say about myself. Finally, just to humor
him (I told myself), I acquiesced, even though I believed I'd only be able to
write a paragraph at the most. Maybe a page. The moment I began to write
"Terror, Father," however, I felt as if I'd just learned to speak,
that I heard my real voice for the first time. I completed the manuscript
in three months. And even though it took much longer to write Love Sick,
I was finally writing what I knew. One thing I most love about writing memoirs,
is that they provide me the opportunity to meet many courageous women. In fact,
the responses that mean the most to me come in whispered phone calls and
handwritten notes from women who thank me for telling their stories, too.
In addition to writing, I am associate editor of the literary journal Fourth
Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction as well as a professional speaker on the
issues of child abuse, family dynamics, and addictions. I received a Honorary
Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Aquinas College for my work in
literature and child abuse victim advocacy. My memoirs have been translated into
Japanese, Chinese, Norwegian, and German. I live in Grand Haven, Michigan with
my cat, Quizzle.
This biography was last updated on 01/21/2002.
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