Author Listings (Historical)
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| Carl J. Barger was born in the Ozark Mountains of Cleburne County, Higden, Arkansas, on August 17, 1943. He was one of twelve children born to Edward and Mamie Ann Totten Barger. He was educated in the Westside Greers Ferry and Quitman Public School Systems in Cleburne County.
After graduating from Quitman....[more] |
| Nevada Barr is the author of a series of mysteries involving national parks. She draws on her own experience as a National Park Service ranger to thrill readers with the majesty of nature. Anna Pigeon, the heroine of such novels as A Superior Death and Endangered Species is a rough-and-tough ranger who left the wilds o....[more] |
| A native of Havana, who resides in Miami since 1991, Daína Chaviano's style bears no resemblance to other works by Cuban, Caribbean, Latin American, or Hispanic authors. She melds realistic and historical elements with aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and Gothic literature. Although Cuba – particularly Havana – is ....[more] |
| I spent my formative years in South Florida, the only child of New York expatriates with a penchant for the Bohemian lifestyle, my best friend was a good book.
At Florida State University I majored in English and then taught high school for five years while working toward a Masters degree in English Education and a ....[more] |
| Saleswoman turned writer, Elizabeth Ann Guevara, bares her soul in, Separated By Dreams. An aspiring true story like no other.
This novel has been adapted into the feature film, Straight Edge set to be released in the Fall of 2012. Elizabeth will serve as Executive Producer. The independent film is in production. ....[more] |
| The author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine, Jay McInerney is a regular contributor to New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent, and Corriere della Sera. His short fiction has apeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy and Granta. In 2006, Time magazine cited his 1984 deb....[more] |
| Alice Randall is the author of The Wind Done Gone; Pushkin and the Queen of Spades; and Rebel Yell. Born in Detroit she grew up in Washington, D.C.. As a Harvard undergraduate majoring in English she studied with Julia Child as well as Harry Levin, Alan Heimert, and Nathan Huggins. After graduation Randall headed south....[more] |
| Author Sheila Walsh writes books for children and adults. She is also a Grammy-nominated singer and speaks at the Women of Faith conferences. On television, she co-hosted The 700 Club and had her own talk show Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh on the Family Channel. She currently lives in Texas with her husband and they....[more] |
| I was born on July 25, 1949 in New Jersey. I grew up on Long Island, spending many a summer day at the beach. I started surfing in the 1960s and stopped in the 80s. I joined the Navy a day after my 18th birthday during the middle of the Vietnam war. The closest I came to Vietnam was San Diego. I was a funeral director,....[more] |
| Rochelle Alers has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today’s most prolific and popular African American authors of women’s fiction.
With nearly two million copies of her novels in print, Ms. Alers is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, and has been the recipient o....[more] |
| Alma Alexander is a novelist whose work has appeared in more than a dozen languages worldwide. Some of her best known works are "The Secrets of Jin Shei" and the YA Worldweavers trilogy ("Gift of the Unmage", "Spellspam", "Cybermage") She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two cats, and assorted visiting ....[more] |
| Maggie Anton was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a secular, socialist household, she reached adulthood with little knowledge of her Jewish religion. All that changed when David Parkhurst, who was to become her husband, entered her life, and they both discovered Judaism as adults. That was....[more] |
| Debra Austin is the pen name of Debra Grubb, who grew up in rural Minnesota, not far from Lake Wobegon. She has a BA in physics from Carleton College and an MD from the University of Southern California. Her husband has a black belt in astrophysics and her children are all above average. Paleoanthropology is her longti....[more] |
| I consider myself living proof of the Law of Attraction. Early on, I became fascinated with people who asked questions, who elicited opinion and could communicate ideas.
My childhood corridor to these people was the radio. I became an avid fan of broadcast personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, Edward R. Murrow, Bar....[more] |
| Arnold Beckhardt and his wife Greta are long-time residents of Vero Beach,Florida. Beckhardt is a retired IBM engineering executive who specialized in the development of weapon systems and space programs. He was a pilot during World War II in China, Burma and India. “We first found Vero Beach when I was working at the ....[more] |
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