ALEXANDRA FULLER’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is a tender, intensely moving and even delightful journey through a white African girl’s childhood. In wry and sometime hilarious prose, Alexandra Fuller describes an unruly life in an often inhospitable place. Winner of several awards, this tale of terrible beauty soars.
SUZANNE GREENBERG’s short story collection Speed-Walk and Other Stories has been praised as “the work of a confident, strong, and utterly unique writer.” With gracefully simple prose, Greenberg creates characters that are at once eccentric and familiar. This debut volume was the 2003 winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
Visit Suzanne Greenberg’s website ›LINDA GREGERSON’s luminous third book of poetry, Waterborne, recently won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and her 1996 volume, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, was a finalist for both the Poets Prize and the Lenore Marshall Award. A former actress with the experimental theater company Karken and staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Gregerson is also a specialist in English Renaissance literature.
Visit Linda Gregerson’s website ›LYN HAMILTON is the author of a successful series of archaeological mysteries featuring antique dealer Lara McClintoch. Each of the well-researched books is set in a different exotic locale and draws upon the past in an unusual way. The seventh, The Thai Amulet, was published in April 2003, and the fourth, The Celtic Riddle, was the basis of the May 2003 Murder, She Wrote TV movie starring Angela Landsbury.
Visit Lyn Hamilton’s website ›HAYDEN HERRERA wrote Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, on which the film Frida was based. She has lectured extensively on 20h century art, written essays for numerous art magazines and, as curator of special exhibits, for museum catalogs. Her other books include Frida Kahlo: The Paintings; Matisse: A Portrait; and, more recently, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work.
GINA B. NAHAI has written three novels including Cry of the Peacock, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, which was number one on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. Her most recent work, Sunday’s Silence, sets its story in Appalachia and “expands Nahai’s fictional universe in new and curiously fitting directions.” (Publishers Weekly)
Visit Gina B. Nahai’s website ›NUALA O’FAOLAIN, born in County Dublin, reared by an alcoholic mother and a remote father, published as her first book a memoir, Are You Somebody? Next, a novel, My Dream of You, continued her examination of lives that are a constant struggle for emotional growth in the face of pain and midlife disappointment. Almost There, a recent memoir, continues that journey.