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BEA 2015: Katherine Heiny: A Carefree Approach
Katherine Heiny has learned to ignore conventional wisdom about the path a fiction writer is supposed to take to find success.
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BEA 2015: Vu Tran Enjoys a Series of Firsts
Vu Tran is attending his first BEA this year, in advance of the publication of his first novel, "Dragonfish" (Norton, Aug.), which features four characters who are already old familiars.
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BEA 2015: Nicole ‘Snooki' Polizzi: Unleashing a New Mindset
Now 28 years old, reality star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi grew up before our eyes.
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BEA 2015: Tracey Stewart: Loving Her Rescue Animals
Tracey Stewart lives on a New Jersey farm with her husband, Daily Show host Jon Stewart, two kids, four dogs, two pot-bellied pigs, two hamsters, three rabbits, two guinea pigs, one parrot, and two horses.
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BEA 2015: Leonard Pitts Jr.: Black Lives Matter
Newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is both fascinated and frustrated with how perceptions of race, culture, and what constitutes progress have evolved in this country in the 40 years between Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the election of Barack Obama.
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BEA 2015: David Payne: An Ode to His Brother
Acclaimed novelist David Payne needed many years to prepare him to write "Barefoot to Avalon" (Grove/Atlantic, Aug.), a memoir about the death of his beloved younger brother, George A.
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BEA 2015: Suzan-Lori Parks: He's Coming Home
Sometimes a common theme in childhood inspires one's art. Such is the case for Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and author Suzan-Lori Parks, who grew up in a military family.
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BEA 2015: Alex Palmer: Uncovering a Ghost of Christmas Past
Before he wrote "The Santa Claus Man" (Rowman & Littlefield, Oct.), Alex Palmer usually found his material in very odd corners.
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BEA 2015: Paige Padgett: Looking Good, Thinking Green
Ten years ago, when veteran Hollywood makeup artist Paige Padgett decided she wanted to "green my kit" (work exclusively with environmentally friendly products), she says she had a lot of detractors.
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BEA 2015: Stephanie Clifford: The High Life
Having grown up in Seattle, it was a bit of a culture shock when Stephanie Clifford, now a New York Times reporter, went to school on the East Coast in the 1990s.
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BEA 2015: Mary Kubica: Living the Dream
When Mary Kubica arrived last year for her first BEA, she was uncertain what to expect.
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BEA 2015: Newt Gingrich: International Intrigue
As a Washington insider, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich knows whereof he speaks when it comes to international terrorists.
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BEA 2015: Jesse Eisenberg: A Club Member and Interloper
When Jesse Eisenberg's first book, "Bream Gives Me Hiccups" (Grove/Atlantic), is published in September, the Oscar-nominated actor might pick up as many fans for his edgy comedic writing as he already has for his work in acclaimed films and plays.
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BEA 2015: Elisabeth Egan: A Story of Having It All
First-time novelist Elisabeth Egan wears two hats this year at BEA: as books editor of Glamour magazine, and as an author-participant with her first novel, "A Window Opens" (Simon & Schuster, Aug.).
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BEA 2015: Vanessa Diffenbaugh: A Voice for the Dispossessed
Second novels are known to be tough, something Vanessa Diffenbaugh can vouch for.
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BEA 2015: Larry Correia: The Saga of the Prolific Writer
Fantasy author Larry Correia is fantasizing, but not the way you think.
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BEA 2015: Lee Child: Is Reacher in Love?
In the opening scene of "Make Me" (Delacorte, Sept.), the 20th Jack Reacher novel, someone is digging a grave with a backhoe.
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BEA 2015: Matt Burriesci: In Praise of Thinking
Motivated by the birth of his first child, Matt Burriesci revisited the established canon of classical literature and wrote a book-length letter to his daughter, titling it, provocatively, "Dead White Men" (Cleis Press/Viva Editions).
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BEA 2015: Alex Brunkhorst: A Window on the Wealthy
Always write about what you know is a time honored writer's mantra. What Alex Brunkhorst knows is the world of lavish estates and the opulent lifestyle that comes with them.
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BEA 2015: Geraldine Brooks Plays King David's Secret Chord
While Geraldine Brooks built her career as a roving journalist, covering global hot spots like the Middle East and the Balkans, she is also renowned as a fiction writer who reaches into the past to write critically acclaimed novels.