Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joan Thomas grew up on the Canadian prairies. She studied English at the University of Winnipeg and taught high school English in three different schools, as well as in a teacher-training program in the Caribbean. She’s worked as a freelance writer, reviewer, and editor, and as Writing and [...]

Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn JOHN BOYNE was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of seven novels for adults and two for children. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas won two Irish Book Awards, was shortlisted for the British Book Award, reached no.1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and was made [...]

Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn LANCE OLSEN was born in 1956 and received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1978, honors), his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop (1980), and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Virginia. Heis author of eleven novels, one hypertext, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a [...]

Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn ​CHERYL WADLINGTON is one of the nation’s premiere fashion and beauty journalists and a leading consultant in the field of personal growth. An accomplished writer, television personality and sought-after motivational speaker, she has reached millions through publications such as Self, Essence, Life & Style, and The Philadelphia Daily News. She founded [...]

Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn TAYLOR M. POLITES is a novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island with his small Chihuahua, Clovis. Polites’ first novel, The Rebel Wife, was published in February 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and BA in History and French from Washington University in [...]

Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn Guy Magar was nine years old when he left Egypt in 1958. His family immigrated to the U.S., where he grew up in Middletown, New York. Graduating from Rutgers University with a B.A. in philosophy, Guy began his film career at the London Film School. Soup Run, his first short about the [...]

  Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn ELLIOT PERLMAN’s Three Dollars won the Age Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award (UK), and the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Book of the Year Award. The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming was a national bestseller in the US, where it was named aNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Seven Types of Ambiguity, a national bestseller [...]

Interviewed by Hubert O’Hearn Written during the third year of The Rebecca School’s operation in Manhattan, RESPECTING AUTISM: The Rebecca School DIR Casebook for Parents and Professionals adroitly describes the results of Tina McCourt and Michael Koffler’s efforts to conceive and create a new school in New York City for children diagnosed on the autism [...]

Brad Wright of Portland Book Review met up with Amor Towles to talk about his debut bestselling novel Rules of Civility. Born in 1964, Amor Towles was raised in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University. He is a principal at an investment firm [...]

Chris Johnson of Portland Book Review met up with Graham Kerr, “The Galloping Gourmet” to talk about his newest book Growing at the Speed of Life. Graham resides in Mt. Vernon, Washington and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He married his wife Treena in 1955 and together they have three children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Graham [...]