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 [...]

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead,which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), [...]

Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, on the last day of 1974. He was educated at the stiflingly all-boy Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he spent much of his time playing computer games, rolling dice, and drawing maps of places that don’t exist. He went on to Manchester University to study Psychology. The dice [...]

Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy, including BLOOD MUSIC, THE FORGE OF GOD, DARWIN’S RADIO, QUANTICO and CITY AT THE END OF TIME. He is married to Astrid Anderson Bear and is the father of Erik and Alexandra. Awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his [...]

Born on a bed of books, Ted spent his youth exploring the multi-dimensional universe of fiction through Hobbiton, the Klingon Home Planet, Orwellian Dystopias and Asimovian Robot Empires. On the non-fiction side of the space-time continuum, he has built computers, written software in multiple human and machine languages, studied the rise and fall of civilizations, [...]

Interviewed by Ross Rojek Tad Williams has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to—singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few. He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both [...]

Interviewed by Ross Rojek Felix Gilman lives in New York, where he works as a lawyer. Thunderer is his first published novel, and his forty-seventh completed manuscript. Previous works — all so far unpublished — include Precious Things; The Staggering Velocity of Beauty; The Bluest Sky; The Golden Light of Distant Stars; Bliss; Suicide Note; [...]

Interviewed by Kaye Cloutman CHUCK FISCHER – author, artist, designer – and now, interactive App creator! Chuck’s work has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, The National Design Museum. His signature collections of china and crystal for LENOX, are available at Amazon.com and fine department [...]