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 grew up in a small house in Etna, New Hampshire. My dad was 65 when I was
born. My neighbors taught me how to drive a Skidoo and shoot a rifle, though I
never made much use of these skills. I graduated from Wesleyan in 1981, and
drove out to San Francisco with some friends. I spent a few years working as a
freelance copy editor before landing a half-time PR job at the SF Zoo. My office
was in a trailer next to Gorilla World. On the days when I wasn't taking calls
about elephant wart removal surgery or denying rumors that the cheetahs had been
sucked dry by fleas, I wrote freelance articles for the local newspaper's Sunday
magazine. Eventually, my editors there moved on to bigger things and took me
along with them.
I mostly write books these days, but I still write the occasional magazine
piece. These have run in Outside, National Geographic, New Scientist, Wired, and
The New York Times Magazine, as well as many others too embarrassing to name. A
1995 article of mine called "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine
Award Finalist, and in 1996, my article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took
the Engineering Journalism Award in the general interest magazine category, for
which I was, let's be honest, the only entrant. I often write about science,
though I don't have a science degree and must fake my way through interviews
with experts I can't understand. I also review books for The New York Times.
My first book, Stiff, was an offshoot of a column I wrote for Salon.com.
It was sort of a reported humor column, wherein I covered things like vaginal
weight-lifting and amputee bowling leagues and the question of how much food it
takes to burst a human stomach.
I have no hobbies. I mostly just work on my books and hang out with my family
and friends. I enjoy bird-watching--though the hours don't agree with
me--backpacking, thrift stores, overseas supermarkets, Scrabble, mangoes, and
that late-night "Animal Planet" show about horrific animals such as the
parasitic worm that attaches itself to fishes' eyeballs but makes up for it by
leading the fish around.
This biography was last updated on 03/24/2008.
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