Author Listings (Coming of Age)
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| Michael Matthews Bingamon was born 1968 in Illinois. Both his mother and grandmother were avid writers and creative writing became a fond hobby of his at a young age. After graduating Urbana High School Michael wandered across the country for a couple of years living in Michigan, New York and California. After returnin....[more] |
| Sarah Bird is the author of four previous novels: "Virgin of the Rodeo", "The Boyfriend School", "Alamo House", & "The Mommy Club", which received the Texas Institute of Letters 1991 Fiction Award. She lives in Austin, Texas. |
| Chris Coppernoll is a singles speaker, radio host, and the author of six books including SCREEN PLAY (January 2010), A BEAUTIFUL FALL 2008, and the 2007 novel, PROVIDENCE. www.Facebook/coppernoll |
| Although born in La Jolla, California, Patricia spent half her childhood in Washington, D.C., the home of several generations of her mother’s family. In 1961, her mother died. Only 18, Patricia returned to Vassar College with a year at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy.....[more] |
| I grew up in southern Delaware and currently work in marketing. I am single, have a golden retriever and no kids. |
| Jo Dillman was born in the early '70s in Plymouth, England. Her work brings together her interest in social studies and her experiences growing up in England during the 1980s and '90s. She began writing as a child and became involved in the English soccer fanzine movement in the early 1990s, having her articles publish....[more] |
| The Robert Dunn here is the author of four musical novels, Pink Cadillac (a Book Sense 76 pick), Cutting Time, Soul Cavalcade, and Meet the Annas. His latest novel, Look at Flower, will be published in March 2011.
Besides being an author, he's a teacher, and musician. He has published widely, including work in the....[more] |
| Susan Hubbard is the author of seven books, including The Society of S (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and The Year of Disappearances (Simon & Schuster, 2008). Her new novel, The Season of Risks, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2010. Hubbard's short story collection, Blue Money, won the Janet Heidinger Kakfa Prize f....[more] |
| After eleven co-authored books with husband, Jim, Terri Kraus has added her award-winning interior designer's eye to her world of fiction. She comes to the Project Restoration series naturally, having survived the remodel, renovation, and restoration of three separate personal residences, along with those of her client....[more] |
| Okie Ladue (aka Nancy Smith) was born in the small town of Claremore, Oklahoma into the Elwain clan, many who are still firefighters today. Through good times and bad, Okie always wanted to write and this is the first of her efforts.
Okie LaDue currently resides in the small town of West Farmington, Ohio where she'....[more] |
| Dee Marie is an award-winning author, photographer and artist. She has a vast knowledge of Arthurian Legends, with a reference library that is overflowing with British, Celtic, and Druid history.
Research for her "Sons of Avalon" saga also included a visit to Britain, where she was privileged to walk within the inne....[more] |
| Olive Peart, who founded Demarche Publishing in 2008 and DLite Press in 2009, was honored at the Juneteenth Celebration of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Westchester and Rockland Counties (NY) at its annual award dinner, June 17, 2010. Peart was recognized as one of the Chamber's "10 Influential Blacks" i....[more] |
| From the depths of Park Avenue in South Saint Louis, Missouri emerges one of the quintessential literary voices of the 21st century. The Pride of Park Avenue is Toriano Porter’s first published book. He is a former All-Conference football player at both Eureka High School in Eureka, Missouri and Central Missouri Sta....[more] |
| Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918) was an American, novelist, journalist and historian Adams is best known for his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams.
Adams was born on February 16, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts into the politically prominent Adams family. Adams was the fourth of seven children. His father....[more] |
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James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American author, poet, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. Agee is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957). Agee was working on the novel at the time of his death. After his death, the n....[more] |
| Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May Alcott. In 1834, the Alcott family moved to Massachusetts, where they became acquainted with writers and ....[more] |
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