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.
Harley Jane Kozak is the youngest of eight children born to Joseph and
Dorothy Kozak, an attorney and a music teacher in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. When
Joe died a year after Harley's birth, Dorothy packed up her children and
moved to North Dakota and then on to Lincoln, Nebraska, to teach at the
University there.
Harley first appeared onstage at age 5 in a college opera production of
Dido and Aneas, broke gender barriers in 4th grade by playing the title
character in Benjamin Franklin and discovered the value of nepotism when
she became a recurring 5th grader on the educational TV show, Music With
Mrs. Kozak. As a junior in high school she was tap dancing in the Nebraska
Repertory Theater, and the following summer supporting herself full-time
with a $55-a-week paycheck from The Legend of Daniel Boone in Harrodsburg,
Kentucky, playing Indian Maiden #2.
At age 19, having done some 30 plays, Harley hit the road and ended up
on New York's Lower East Side. She was accepted into the the professional
acting training program at NYU's School of the Arts (now Tisch School of
the Arts). Completing the program 3 years later, Harley was cast in the
feature film The House on Sorority Row, and said goodbye to a decade of
waitressing. Soon she got a soap opera (Texas) and a husband, and a year
and a half later a cancellation notice and a divorce. After 2 years on
Guiding Light, she moved to L.A. to do Santa Barbara, her last soap, where
she met her end being crushed to death by a giant neon letter
"C".
Harley went on to star in feature films Parenthood, Arachnophobia, The
Favor, Sideout, The Taking of Beverly Hills, Necessary Roughness, All I
Want for Christmas, Magic in the Water, and Dark Planet, and prime time
series Knightwatch, Harts of the West, Bringing Up Jack, Charlie Grace,
and You Wish. TV movies include The Amy Fisher Story, So Proudly We Hail,
A Friend's Betrayal, Unforgiveable, Emma's Wish, The Android Affair and
Titanic, the miniseries. Her stage appearances include The Effect of Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Seagull,
Twelfth Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Love
Letters, Man of the Moment, Lost in Yonkers, and Born Yesterday.
Harley Jane Kozak lives in California with her husband, three children,
two dogs and a cat. She is working on a sequel to Dating Dead Men.
This biography was last updated on 01/26/2004.
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