About Diane Diane Hammond, the author of three previous novels, Hannah’s Dream, Going to Bend, and Homesick Creek, is the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission literary fellowship and served as a spokesperson for the Free Willy Keiko Foundation and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. She lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband and daughter. Learn […]
Shelley Shepard Gray, author of Winter’s Awakening, on tour February 2010
About Winter’s Awakening Joshua Graber knows his future is set. He?s expected to work at his family business, the Graber Country Store. He?s expected to marry Gretta Hershberger, who he?s been courting for several years. But when a new English family moves next door and their lovely teenage daughter, Lilly Allen, catches his eye, Joshua […]
Vanitha Sankaran, author of Watermark, on tour April 2010
About Watermark Watermark is an atmospheric and compelling debut novel about the search for identity, the power of self-expression, and the value of the written word. The daughter of a papermaker in 1320s France, Auda has an ability to read and write that comes from a place of need. Silenced, she finds hope and opportunity […]
Todd Johnson, author of The Sweet By and By, on tour April 2010
About The Sweet By and By Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret, droll and whip smart, has […]
Laura Lippman, author of Life Sentences, on tour March 2010
About Life Sentences Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers—and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that […]
Lynn Cullen, author of The Creation of Eve, on tour March 2010
About Lynn Lynn Cullen is the author of the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter, a 2007 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008. Her previous award-winning novels and picture books for children include the critically acclaimed Moi & Marie Antoinette, The Backyard Ghost, and The Mightiest Heart, for […]
Malena Watrous, authour of If You Follow Me, on tour March 2010
About If You Follow Me “I love, love, love IF YOU FOLLOW ME. It’s fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife “Dear Miss Marina… First learn gomi law, second Japanese language, and third you can […]
Nafisa Haji, author of The Writing on My Forehead, on tour March 2010
About Nafisa Nafisa Haji was born and mostly raised in Los Angeles—mostly, because there were years also spent in Chicago, Karachi, Manila, and London. Her family migrated from Bombay to Karachi in 1947 during Partition, when the Indian Subcontinent was divided into two states. In the late 1960s, Nafisa’s parents came to the United States, […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Weight of Heaven, on tour February 2010
About The Weight of Heaven “Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level. . . . Umrigar . . . is a descriptive master.” — Christian Science Monitor From Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space […]
Zoë Heller, author of The Believers, on tour January/February 2010
About Zoë Zoë Heller is the author of Everything You Know and What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and made into an acclaimed film starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Heller lives in New York. About The Believers “[Zoë Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, […]