Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for Fir…
Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of eight novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and …
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author s…
Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University's Writer-in-Residence. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY [1967], Sacred Hea…
James McBride is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. He studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his Masters in Journalism from Co…
Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972, Coleraine Northern Ireland) is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. It is possible to identify several common …
Ann Napolitano’s novel, Hello Beautiful, was published by Dial Press in March 2023 and was an instant New York Times bestseller and the 100th Oprah Book Club pick. The novel was published by Viking Pe…
Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbi…
Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that s…
Born in Honningsvåg in 1974, grew up in Tromsø and is currently living in Oslo, Norway. Has worked on a lot of different project, including theater plays and working as text writer for the very popula…
Kyrre Andreassen er en norsk forfatter, utdannet cand.mag. ved Universitetet i Oslo med fagene idéhistorie, litteraturvitenskap og nordisk. Han debuterte i 1997 med novellesamlingen «Det er her du har…
Paul Murray is an Irish novelist. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin and has written two novels: An Evening of Long Goodbyes (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 2003, and nom…
Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over tw…
É autor dos romances Niassa (ASA, 2007), A Última Canção da Noite (Dom Quixote, 2013) e O Monte do Silêncio (Dom Quixote, 2023). O seu primeiro romance, Niassa, foi distinguido com o prémio PEN Clube …
Marit Eikemo (f. 1971) er frå Odda og bur i Bergen. Ho har tidlegare arbeidd som tidsskriftredaktør, festivalsjef for Litteratursymposiet i Odda, forlagsredaktør, leiar for Cornerteatret i Bergen og e…
CLAIRE LOMBARDO earned her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and spent several years doing social work in Chicago.
Nasceu em Lisboa em 1978. É médica e escritora. Fez a especialidade de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia e a Subespecialidade de Medicina da Reprodução. É uma leitora compulsiva e apaixonada por histórias desde …
