My Year in Nonfiction!
November is a busy blogging month and despite hosting Novellas in November I always try to participate in Nonficton November as well. Throughout the month of November, bloggers Liz, Frances, Heathe…| 746books.com
October whooshed by in a swirl of leaves, events (a book festival, a gala, Halloween) and autumn light. Amid all that, here’s what I have been reading: The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward, ed. Maggie Smith and Saeed JonesI went to a wonderful event last month celebrating this fierce, wise, thoughtful […]| cakes, tea and dreams
Laura Cassidy is publisher and co-editor at the literary journal and small press Banshee, where along with her co-founders she was named a Bookseller Rising Star. Her novels for young adults were published by Penguin Ireland, and she is a recipient of the Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award and an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Award. From Co. Kildare, she now lives in Cork city.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Mahreen Sohail was born in Pakistan. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied as a Fulbright scholar; and was a Writing Fellow at A Public Space and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her work has appeared in Granta, the Kenyon Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology (XLII), and elsewhere. She lives in Washington DC.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country – winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2021. Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia and her latest collection is Gunflower. She is the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow and teaches Creative Writing at Massey University.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Mary O’Donnell has written award-winning poetry, novels, short fiction collections and dynamic essays. Published fiction includes the novels The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie. In 2023 she received an An Post/Irish Book Award for her political poem ‘Vectors in Kabul’. In 2026 Wake Forest University Press (USA) will publish her ninth poetry collection, Tenderness. In May this year, a new short fiction collection, Walking Ghosts was published by Mercier Press, and her transla...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Patrick Cotter is an Irish poet, born in Cork City where he still lives and works as a literary festival organiser and editor. His poems have been published in journals such as the Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Poetry and Poetry Review. He is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. His poems have been translated into over a dozen languages and he has given readings of his work across the Northern Hemisphere. Sonic White Poise is his third full-length collection.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Nilsa Rivera is a data analyst and essayist exploring the intersections of housing insecurity, environment, and public policy. She's currently working on her debut nonfiction book, Houselessness in Florida, forthcoming from the University of Florida Press.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses storytelling to distill complex ideas and creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His elaborate installations feature painting, drawing, and photography to tell pluralistic stories with broad representation. His public projects typically involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy and contemplative strategies—along with music, performance, and food—to create a fluid boundary between...| Listen & Be Heard Network
I’m an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and Penelope Unbound, as well as three collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye, Prosperity Drive and Twenty-Twenty Vision| Listen & Be Heard Network
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in literary and art magazines, including Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Dark Neighbourhood, her debut story collection, was named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2021, and was shortlisted for both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize in 2022. Her short story ‘Green Afternoon’ was shortlisted for the BBC Nationa...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a B&N Discover Pick, and the short story collection Green Frog, which was a Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick, an NPR Best Book of the Year, and longlisted for the New American Voices Award. She has received the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, two APALA Adult Fiction Hono...| Listen & Be Heard Network
November is a busy blogging month and despite hosting Novellas in November I always try to participate in Nonficton November as well. Throughout the month of November, bloggers Liz, Frances, Heathe…| 746books.com
On this day, we celebrate the life of Martin Luther, the leader of the Reformation movement of the 16th century, a former Augustinian friar and professor of theology, and the author of the first common-language German translation of the Bible.| Hungarian Conservative
The following is an excerpt from Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac, translated by Lauren Elkin. Illustrated with personal photographs and reproductions of her work, the book... READ MORE The post An excerpt from Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Adkins, Roy & Lesley "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago" (aka "Jane Austen's England) - 2013Part of my #Reading Austen project is to read a book by the author in the uneven months and a book about the author and/or her books in the even ones. This is my October read.| Let's read
Biographers International Organization (BIO) invites applications for its 2026 fellowships and prizes, which support and celebrate the craft of biography at every stage—from dissertation research to debut works and beyond. […]| Biographers International Organization
A new fellowship supporting archival research by biographers is now open for applications. The Clio Fellowship for Archival Research, established by| Biographers International Organization
Simon Gathercole analyzes Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John alongside some of the earliest and most controversial apocryphal gospels.| EerdWord
Disclosure: I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.I always love learning about women who we may not have heard of but are famous in their own right. I really love learning about female mathematicians and scientists who have made a difference in our world. And although we always focus on women in March for Women's History Month I also feel it is important that we learn about them all year long. After all women do make up at least 50% of the wo...| Crafty Moms Share
Looking back over the process of a book can be really informative. So much is forgotten over the course of the several years it takes from idea to published. Here’s an interesting post from debut author Danna Zeiger on the journey of REWRITING THE RULES: HOW DR. KATHLEEN FRIEL CREATED NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR BRAIN RESEARCH … More Behind the Scenes: “The Evolution of a Picture Book Biography from Sub to Pub” by Danna Zeiger, Ph.D.| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Hammond, Richard "As You Do: Adventures With Evil, Oliver And The Vice President Of Botswana" - 2008 I have always loved Top Gear and espcia...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
Pyeng Threadgill is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher. With a deep belief in the transformative power of music and movement, she creates what she calls New Porch Music. Drawing on the musical traditions of the African Diaspora—from Black American Folk and Soul to Jazz and improvisation—Pyeng uses her Porch Sessions to foster connected conversations, empowering audiences to reflect on their own life stories and identities for healing and g...| Listen & Be Heard Network
If you’ve been reading this LitBlog for a while, you’ll know that I love trees. Recent favourite books include City of Trees (2019), by Sophie Cunningham and My Forests: Travels with Trees (2021), by Janine Burke, but it was The Tree in Changing Light (2001), by Roger McDonald which taught me a lesson about taking advantage […]| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Below is Toni Morrison’s introduction to The Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, and Camille Billops It is fashionable these days to hear among photography lovers the cry, “Oh, those early photographers really knew how to| Literary Hub
Imagine a life story as a house clearance – that’s how for many of us it finds shape, as objects are passed on, memories stirred and made. Some objects will be bequests, handed down in the family or between friends; others will be sold. Yet others will make their way into charity shops, to find … Continue reading Jane Austen in 41 Objects | Kathryn Sutherland| This Reading Life
In Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender, James Romm tells the tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader. In this Q&A, we talk with the author about his writing process and what... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Like us on Facebook The next photo is the PROMPT. Remember, all photos are property of the photographer, donated for use in Friday Fictioneers only. They shouldn’t be used for any other purpose without express permission. It is proper etiquette to give the contributor credit. The photo this week is of the inside of an […]| Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple
Bev Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 40 years. She is the co-creator of a women's labor history multi-media presentation entitled "We Were There!" has recorded six albums, including a companion cd for the show, called "We Were There!", a solocd entitled "IN TUNE", a 7-song ep with her former group, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters, called “CHEEKY WOMAN”, two albums with her fo...| Listen & Be Heard Network
जानें Dorothy Miles के जीवन, उपलब्धियाँ और सांकेतिक भाषा कविता के माध्यम से Deaf Culture को दी गई उनकी वैश्विक पहचान।| Awesome Gyani - A Complete Packet of Knowledge
Disclosure: I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.Every generation had its own beloved children's authors. For Hazel it was Mo Willems, Kevin Henkes, and Shannon Hale. For me I remember loving Beatrix Potter, Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume. I remember loving Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad as well. I also loved the Paddington series. Of course there are also the other classics like Dr. Seuss. Today we are sharing a fun new book about Arnold Lobel...| Crafty Moms Share
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Recollections of Full Years: Helen Herron Taft, wife of William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, recalls her life married to one of America’s most influential political figures.| standardebooks.org
Biographer Michelle Scott Tucker discusses how erasure and vilification shaped Louisa Lawson’s life and her subsequent legacy.| Michelle Scott Tucker
Author Andrea Wang’s latest book is beautiful in text and art, and at the same time heartbreaking and inspiring. The path to the heart of WORTHY: THE BRAVE AND CAPABLE LIFE OF JOSEPH PIERCE s…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Andrew Davila started his social media career back in 2014 by creating an Instagram account. He began posting pictures and amusing videos for leisure until| Featured Biography
Internationally acclaimed drummer/percussionist; future-music & live electronic music performance pioneer; professional international solo artist, producer, arranger and innovative cultural arts practitioner; Musical/Creative Director for the music/multi-media performance project DRUM-FM and Stockholm-based live arts-education organization and interactive concept-club KULT-U-REAL™.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Dao Strom is a poet, musician, writer, and interdisciplinary artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author/composer of several hybrid-literary works, including...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Interviewed by Brenda S. Cox “As soon as he can light upon a bishop, he will be ordained. I wonder what curacy he will get!”–Anne Steele, about Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility. A few days ago, I told you about a fascinating new book on Henry Austen. The author is a retired Church of […]| Jane Austen's World
Book Review by Brenda S. Cox “I had a letter from him [Henry], in which he desired to hear from me very soon—His to me was most affectionate and kind, as well as entertaining;—but there is no merit in that, he cannot help being amusing.”—Jane to Cassandra, April 8, 1805 “Henry at White’s! Oh, what […]| Jane Austen's World
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University will host Three Conversations on Contemporary Biography on Friday, October 10, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The symposium, […]| Biographers International Organization
Charlie Rosario is a graphic designer, visual artist, drummer and poet of Puerto Rican parentage who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. In the late 1960s he began his career in Latin album cover art with a psychedelic painting for Tito Puente (The King Tito Puente / El Rey Tito Puente, Tico Records, 1969), for which he was paid 95.00 but never given credit.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Presiding Over Shadows: From Chaos to Order in the Court by Michael Randazzo SYNOPSIS – I am Judge Michael Randazzo, but by all odds, I never should have been. My story begins in a pop-up tra…| BookZone
लैरी एलीसन तकनीक, उद्यमिता और नवाचार की दुनिया में एक ऐसा नाम है जो हमेशा याद रखा जाएगा। ऑरेकल कॉर्पोरेशन के सह-संस्थापक और प्रेरक शक्ति के रूप में प्रसिद्ध, एलीसन […] The post लैरी एलीसन के जीवन की ...| Awesome Gyani – A Complete Packet of Knowledge
Note to Reader: One of Jane Austen’s earliest surviving letters is dated 23 August 1796 and was sent to her sister Cassandra from Cork street in London, where the twenty-year-old budding auth…| This Reading Life
Here’s another fantastic book from one of the Kid Lit for Growing Minds members! In this post for educators and librarians, author Lisa Rogers, a former library teacher, shares how WOODY’S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS can be used as a springboard for students to practice a growth mindset. GIVEAWAY! … More Especially for Educators: “Who Helps You Shine? Embracing a Growth Mindset to Reach Your Dreams” by Lisa Rogers| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Simone I. Smith Marriage and Family Simone and LL COOL J have been married for more than three decades and have four children: Najee, Italia, Samaria, and Nina. Nina graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2023 and is a music performer. They also have three grandchildren from their eldest daughter. The family is not […]| Featured Biography
Aj Shabeel started his YouTube channel in 2015 with football videos and collaborations with fellow creators like Chunkz and Sharky. Additionally, he also| Featured Biography
It's hard to believe that there could be anything more that could usefully be written about Einstein - and then this impressive little book comes along. ('Little' is not a negative here - I love short books that cram a lot in, and this one delivers impressively.) Rather than present us with the classic scientific biography, Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael Gordin take six different cuts through Einstein's life and work, examining the process that produced his views and beliefs.After a prolog...| Popular Science Books
Explore new books by Joan Silber and Kiran Desai, along with other notable recent releases in this literary roundup.| The Longest Chapter
This history of the first feminist movement in the UK is terrific. The Bluestockings were an informal group of eighteenth-century middle- and upper-class women of talent, distinction, wit and intel…| Kate Macdonald
Like us on Facebook The next photo is the PROMPT. Remember, all photos are property of the photographer, donated for use in Friday Fictioneers only. They shouldn’t be used for any other purpose without express permission. It is proper etiquette to give the contributor credit. Some of you may recognize this prompt and story. I […]| Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple
Richard Ellmann saw himself as emulating Joyce: the main job of the biographer was less a matter of ‘observing’ than...| London Review of Books
Dances With Wolves actor Graham Greene died on 1 September 2025. His net worth was $1 million. He won 2 Gemini awards, one Grammy Awards, and more.| eAskme | How to : Ask Me Anything : Learn Blogging Online
Having studied at the Professional Children's School, which is for young performers and artists, Lily Chee currently studies at Queen's University in| Featured Biography
Rushdie, Salman "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder" - 2024 This was my third book by Salman Rushdie. I have enjoyed them all but ...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
Sullivan, Margaret C. "The Jane Austen Handbook. A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World" - 2007 Part of my #Reading Austen project is to...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
(Recorded without naming and shaming their unfortunate authors who don’t need to know, but you do.) Knife behind back, by Yoshitomo Nara. The one whose opening chapter contains a messy birth, a fla…| Kate Macdonald
A new biography explores the work and mind of a leading American journalist of the twentieth century.| Law & Liberty
Faith Ordway started her social media career in April 2019 with video content on thrifting and outdoor adventures. Soon enough, she gained popularity as she| Featured Biography
While this may appear to be a stock photo of the Beverly Hillbillies visiting Joshua Tree National Monument in 1965, it is, in fact, my father driving his creation, a heavily chopped and modified 1950 Ford with a flathead V8 and 3 on the tree. One of the earlier varieties of soon-to-be popular sand and...| The Desert Way with Jaylyn and John
Lata Jagtiani’s Thank You, Guru Dutt! was released a few months back, to mark Guru Dutt’s birth centenary year. This is a book that follows on the heels of several other (well-acclaimed) books abou…| Dustedoff
“Securing the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s greatest success and is his legacy.”| Public Books
Hi friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m posting my review of Wayne Johnston’s memoir, Jennie’s Boy.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
Acting Career and Notable Roles Leah Jeffries began acting at the tender age of five, securing a recurring role as Lola Lyon in the musical drama Empire (2015–2016). She subsequently branched out her career into film with the character of Norah Samuels in the 2022 thriller Beast and Daisy Greene in Something from Tiffany’s (2022). […]| Featured Biography
Carol Castro began her television career with a part in the 2003 Rede Globo hit telenovela Mulheres Apaixonadas, where she portrayed Gracinha. As a result,| Featured Biography
Mark graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Master's Degree in Agriculture. He served twenty-nine years as a county agent for Clemson University Extension Service in three counties with responsibilities in horticulture, agriculture and 4-H. He taught Master Gardeners and Pesticide Management. He wrote weekly/monthly articles for local and State Newspapers,| Listen & Be Heard Network
Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit (2011) and the history of the main street of Black America, Beale Street Dynasty (2015). His latest, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King published in January of 2025.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Derek Parfit hit the philosophy firmament in the early 1960s, while Karl Popper arrived on the Vienna scene three decades earlier. David Edmonds' biography of Parfit provides a careful and detailed account of Parfit's main philosophical preoccupations and some details about his life in Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality. Popper's autobiographical essay in Paul Arthur Schilpp, The Philosophy of Karl PopperPart I and Part II (published separately as An Unended Quest) offers ...| Understanding Society
American painter Susan Watkins (1875–1913) built an artistic career at the turn of twentieth century that met all the markers of professional success. She exhibited in Paris and New York,... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Helped by Sam Tanenhaus’ new biography, insights into the benefits and drawbacks of for-profit versus nonprofit status, the balancing of control with the risks of “capture,” and the potential ramifications of more belief and trust in grantees who are going to do what they’re going to do, with or without any grant.| the Giving Review
A book review of former New Zealand Prime Minister’s new biography. Power has always fascinated me. What can you do with power? What happens in places of power? How does power change people? Jacind…| Katri Bertram
A new book rescues from obscurity a largely forgotten figure in American history. It's an engaging read, surpringly so given the many names and facts involved, but that's a testament to the author, Alex Green. He's got a magic touch.| The Longest Chapter
Monica Macansantos is a 2024-2025 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and was recently named a 2025 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia. She is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father's Kitchen (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, May 2025) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022).| Listen & Be Heard Network
Sam Rybka and Teagan first entered public sight in 2013 when they auditioned on Australia's Got Talent under the guise of The Rybka Twins. They stunned both| Featured Biography
"Having a project is a gift, Not having a project is when you are in trouble." -- various These pearls of wisdom were recalled at the recent conference of the Biographers International Organization, held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on June 6-7. BIO was founded in 2008…| Eugene L. Meyer
WENDY LOOMIS is an award-winning San Francisco-based composer, pianist, producer, and educator. She has released 20 CDs to date and performs nationally and internationally with various ensembles in the genres of poetic jazz, new age, and world music.| Listen & Be Heard Network
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/W-E-B-Du-Bois-The-Fight-for-Equality-and-the-American-Century-1919-1963/David-Levering-Lewis/9781668123539| Listen & Be Heard Network
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece."In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois's charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African American veterans to the riots and lynchings of the "Red Summer" of 1919 and ending with Du Bois's self-imposed exile and death in Ghana for...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Ozier Muhammad graduated with a B.A., in photography from Columbia College in Chicago. He has been a photojournalist for more than 3 decades. His first job was as a staff photographer at Ebony Magazine. Ozier joined The Charlotte Observer in 1978, went to Newsday in 1980 and has been at the New York Times since 1992.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Sarah Ruden uses six of Sylvia Plath's poems to tell the poet's story, stripping away political iconography to reveal the poet's achievement. The post “I Am the Arrow”: Sarah Ruden Tells Sylvia Plath’s Story appeared first on Tweetspeak Poetry.| Tweetspeak Poetry
Ah yes, the conundrum of TMI (too much information). I know it well. It’s like you’re a kid in a candy store and can only choose one of the many varieties tempting you. Here’s a w…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Beauty: Empowering Confidence Through Glamour Most importantly, Fernanda Duran inspires her followers to love their beauty by providing pro tips on makeup and skincare, flawless makeup tutorials, and honest product reviews. Moreover, she collaborates with the best brands like SHEGLAM and Dossier Perfume, showcasing products that work and remaining authentic to her voice. Through her […]| Featured Biography
Madelena Eifert holds a Masters in Public Health (M.P.H.) with a focus on epidemiological methods and research.| Social Welfare History Project
Nadia Bukach is a clinical M.S.W. student at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Mellon Foundation Social Welfare History Graduate Fellow at VCU Libraries. She earned her B.A. in Geography from the University of Richmond in 2010, and a certificate in massage therapy in 2012. She served as GIS technician at the University of Richmond’s Geospatial...| Social Welfare History Project
Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize and reviewed by Publishers Weekly. She is a multi-nominated Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.| Listen & Be Heard Network
With a unique, instantly recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has been active on the international jazz scene since late 1980s. His boundary-less musical approach crisscrosses free jazz, elliptical post-bop, and modern classical music. He served as pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet during the early '90s before leading his own dates and recording duos with a variety of musicians.| Listen & Be Heard Network
I define stigma against mentally disabled people as a process that creates negative stereotyping and isolation, typically based on the irrational fear of| University Press of Kansas
Hi friends, happy Wednesday, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m posting my review of Ma-Nee Chacaby’s autobiography, A Two-Spirited Journey.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
Last week I noted how leadership communication has been a topic of significant interest among Purpose in Leadership readers. Leaders who care about their message must learn the art and practice of effective leadership communication. While there are there many positive examples of leadership communicators in history, one of the most powerful visionary communicators of the … Continue reading Leadership Communication: Reflections on Dr. King’s Example| Purpose in Leadership
This past week, Southwest Airlines Founder and Chairman Emeritus Herbert D. Kelleher passed away today at the age of 87. Kelleher left quite an impression on both the airline industry and on those who worked with him. One of Southwest Airline’s achievements has been 46 years of consecutive profitability due to its approach to steady … Continue reading People First Leadership: Remembering Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines| Purpose in Leadership
Shennette Garrett-Scott and Fara Dabhoiwala are the recipients of the 2025 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship, awarded for biographical works-in-progress that| Biographers International Organization
At any point over the past fifty years or so a small band of dissidents have made it their business to inform the reading public that the Orwell game is up. In most cases this process involves the …| This Reading Life
“Finding a way in” is one of the challenges for an author. But it was also the challenge for the subject of author Jeanne Walker Harvey’s biography of architect I.M. Pei which foc…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Back in the old days—the 1970s—when I worked in advertising and was tuned into the marketing tactics that captured the hearts and minds of consumers,| University Press of Kansas
Emily Dobson developed her love of dance at the age of three, twirling graciously in ballet slippers and later exploring ballroom and beyond. Her talent and| Featured Biography
Richard Clements is a pianist. In the early 1980’s, he moved to New York City to pursue his Jazz studies with Jazz master pianist Barry Harris. In 1997 Richard joined Archie Shepp n Paris.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Behind the scenes, Icy Wicy posts regularly and videos at optimal timing to make fans interact and anticipate more. She surfs on TikTok trends with a twist of| Featured Biography
C. L. (Cecil) Willis, a native of Canton, North Carolina, is professor emeritus of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. After retiring, he moved back to his beloved Southern Appalachian mountains. He lives with his daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren in Alexander outside Asheville, NC. Hillbilly Odyssey is his first book.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Suzette Clark Bradshaw from western North Carolina, is a self-taught poet and sculptress. Her poems have appeared in Dead Mule, Branches, Women Speak, and more.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Donna Janell Bowman is an award-winning author of books for young readers, including Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills, co-authored with Olympian Billy Mills| Listen & Be Heard Network
