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BEA 2013: Joshilyn Jackson: Two Characters Tell One Story
Joshilyn Jackson’s fans, who might come to her work expecting lyrical portrayals of the Deep South and a collision of complicated characters, will not be disappointed with her sixth novel, Someone Else’s Love Story. But they may be surprised.
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BEA 2013: Adam Gidwitz: Wrapping Up All Things Grimm
A propitious phone call from the Brooklyn school where he was a teacher launched a new career for Adam Gidwitz, who was asked to fill in as a substitute librarian for the day. Charged with finding something to read to second graders, he searched his bookshelves and reached for a book he’d never opened: a collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm.
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BEA 2013: Trista Sutter: ‘I Do’ in Front of Millions
She was the very first Bachelorette, a former pediatric physical therapist and Miami Heat dancer who fell in love with a handsome poetry-writing Colorado firefighter and had her fairy tale wedding televised on ABC to more than 26 million viewers.
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BEA 2013: Tracey Garvis Graves: A Serendipitous Movie Option
Like most self-published authors, Tracey Garvis Graves just always wanted to write a novel and was determined not to let her “100% rejection” by agents and publishers stop her.
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Susan Cooper: A View from the Window
Sometimes the next great idea for a book is just outside one’s window.
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BEA 2013: Dianne Dixon: From TV to Novels
Sometimes ignorance is not just bliss but a blessing. Back when Dianne Dixon was a clueless grad student, she listened when a friend told her that she was so offbeat and funny that she should get a job at Disney or Hanna-Barbera.
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BEA 2013: Michael Pocalyko: Tackling the Next Big Thing
As a young man, Michael Pocalyko (pronounced “poe-calico”) had literary aspirations and apprenticed to legendary publisher James Laughlin at New Directions.
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BEA 2013: Wendy Lower: Uncovering What Others Missed
Some people write exclusively about baseball, or the stock market, or dog care.
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BEA 2013: Kiese Laymon: Chasing the Narrative
Kiese Laymon does nothing by half measures.
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BEA 2013: Sheri Fink: Disaster Management
After reporter Sheri Fink wrote her searing, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times Magazine article, “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” which examined the tumultuous effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans’s Memorial Medical Center, she knew the article was not large enough to say what she wanted to about that catastrophic event and the lessons learned.
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BEA 2013: Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi: Laughing Through the Bumps
Best known for her party-girl persona on the hit reality show Jersey Shore, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has penned a book about pregnancy that is far from the traditional “what to expect” tome.
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BEA 2013: Andrea Cremer and David Levithan: Writing Soul Mates Collaborate
It was love at first sight as only two writers could experience it.
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BEA 2013: Allan Gurganus: It Takes a Village
The fictional town of Falls, N.C., continues to supply Allan Gurganus with plenty of grist for his writing mill.
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BEA 2013: Tim Conway: 70 Years of Laughter
An Emmy Award–winning actor and comedian, Tim Conway has been making people laugh for more than 70 years.
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BEA 2013: Jonathan Stroud: The Child Is Father to the Man
One of the most traumatic periods in Jonathan Stroud’s childhood had a positive aftermath.
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BEA 2013: Alice McDermott: One Woman’s Voice
You wouldn’t think in the 21st century that it would be seen as an act of conceit to write a novel from one common woman’s point of view, but that’s how author Alice McDermott perceives her seventh novel, Someone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept.).
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BEA 2013: A. Scott Berg: On the Emotional Side of Wilson
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked,” says A. Scott Berg, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of four bestselling biographies including Lindbergh and Max Perkins.
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BEA 2013: Chelsea Handler: Reading Is Her Passion
Thursday’s Book and Author Breakfast may have its usual early start, but there will be no dozing off this year.
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BEA 2013: Jan-Philipp Sendker: The Heart Beat
It took 10 years for German writer Jan-Philipp Sendker to get his bestselling debut novel, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, printed in the United States, but he never gave up his dream to publish here.
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BEA 2013: Kevin Henkes: Inspired by His Kids
Distinctly versatile Kevin Henkes, who received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s Full Moon and Newbery Honors for Olive’s Ocean, targets a slightly different audience in The Year of Billy Miller (Greenwillow, Sept.).
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