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Carol Lynch Williams
Carol Lynch Williams discussed The Chosen One, and what inspired her to write a book about polygamy.
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C. W. Gortner
A video interview with C.W. Gortner in which he talks about his 2010 historical novel, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici.
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Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods discusses her first book, Bonobo Handshake, and her experiences with the extrarodinary Bonobos.
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Kwei Quartey
Kwei Quartey talks about his childhood in Ghana and his first novel, Wife of the Gods, set in a small Ghanaian community where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface.
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Michel Faber: Biography
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Browse a biography and interview of Michel Faber
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Biography
Michel Faber was born in Holland. He moved with his family to Australia in
1967 and has lived in Scotland since 1992. His short story 'Fish' won the
Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition in 1996 and is
included in his first collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall and
Other Stories (1998), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of
the Year Award.
His first novel, Under the Skin (2000), was shortlisted for the Whitbread
First Novel Award. He has also won the Neil Gunn Prize and an Ian St James
Award.
Other fiction includes The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps (1999) and
The Courage Consort (2002), The Crimson Petal and the White (2002).
His collection of stories, The Apple (2006) continues the tale of some
of the characters from The Crimson Petal and the White. A further
collection of short stories, Vanilla Bright Like Eminem was published
in 2007. A further novel, The Fire Gospel, was published in the UK
in 2008 and the USA in January 2009.
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