About Dr. Irene Pepperberg Irene M. Pepperberg is an associate research professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and teaches animal cognition at Harvard University. She is head of the Alex Foundation and author of The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots. Don’t miss the website for the Alex Foundation! About Alex & […]
Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets, on tour October 2009
About Jess Jess Walter is the author of five novels, including The Zero, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and Citizen Vince, winner of the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Literary Prize in both fiction […]
John Grogan, author of The Longest Trip Home, on tour October/November 2009
About John I was born in Motor City, Detroit, Michigan, on March 20, 1957. My very Catholic parents were hoping for a St. Patrick’s Day baby. Then for a St. Joseph’s Day baby. I was having no part of it. Instead, I arrived on the first day of spring, the youngest of four. Not long after, […]
Laura Kasischke, author of In a Perfect World, on tour October 2009
About Laura Laura Kasischke is the author of Boy Heaven, her first novel for teens, as well as The Life Before Her Eyes, Be Mine, and seven collections of poetry. She has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her writing has been published in The New Republic, Harper’s, Poetry, and […]
Victoria Hislop, author of The Return, on tour October 2009
About Victoria Victoria Hislop read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and writes travel features for The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, House & Garden and Woman & Home. Her first novel The Island was published by Headline Review and held the number 1 slot in the paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks, selling […]
Francine Prose, author of Goldengrove, on tour September/October 2009
About Francine Prose Francine Prose is the author of fifteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN […]
Shilpa Agarwal, author of Haunting Bombay, on tour October 2009
About SHILPA Shilpa Agarwal is the author of Haunting Bombay (April 2009, Soho Press), an acclaimed literary ghost story set in 1960’s India that became a bestseller (San Francisco Chronicle) three months after publication, and was awarded a First Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writers. It will also be published internationally in Europe and […]
Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series on tour September/October 2009
About Maud Hart Lovelace Maud Hart Lovelace was born April 26, 1892, but until she was 50 years old she believed her birthday was the 25th (which coincided with the birthday of her namesake, Aunt Maud). The daughter of Tom and Stella Hart, Maud was christened simply “Maud Hart”; around age 10, she adopted her mother’s […]
Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence, on tour August/September 2009
About Heather Gudenkauf Heather Gudenkauf was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. At one month of age, her family returned to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota where her father was employed as a guidance counselor and her mother as a school nurse. At the age of three, her family […]
Rachel Simmons, author of The Curse of the Good Girl, on tour September 2009
About Rachel Rachel Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Simmons works internationally with girls, parents, and teachers to develop strategies to address bullying and to empower girls. A graduate of Vassar College in 1998, Simmons won a Rhodes scholarship and attended […]