Susan Jane Gilman
Susan Jane Gilman’s new novel, “Donna Has Left the Building” will be published in June 2019. She is also the bestselling author of three nonfiction books “Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress,” “Undress me in the Temple of Heaven,” and “Kiss My Tiara," as well as the novel, "The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street." She's provided commentary for National Public Radio. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, and has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Ms. magazine, among others. Her fiction and essays have received several literary awards.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
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During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American -
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I grew up in Texas in the seventies, and although I really wanted to go into writing and film from an early age, my parents (Cuban-American) were NOT on board.
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They believed there were only three acceptable career paths for a male child: doctor, lawyer, and architect.
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Kate Bolick
Kate Bolick is a contributing editor for The Atlantic, freelance writer for ELLE, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal (among other publications), and host of "Touchstones at The Mount," an annual literary interview series at Edith Wharton's country estate, in Lenox, MA. Previously, she was executive editor of Domino, and a columnist for The Boston Globe Ideas Section.
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Rachel Hollis
Rachel laid the foundation for her lifestyle brand and media company with the same unfiltered honesty and staunch inclusivity that made her a two-time #1 New York Times bestselling author. Hollis connects with a highly engaged and growing global audience of women who treasure her transparency and optimism. She is one of the most sought-after motivational speakers, plays host to one of today’s top business podcasts and is a proud mama of four who uses her platform to empower and embolden women around the world. Rachel calls Texas home; more specifically the Hill Country just outside of Austin.
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Rachel Kapelke-Dale
American novelist living in Paris. Obsessed with ballet, books, and dogs. THE FORTUNE SELLER is out 2/13/24; THE INGENUE (2022) and THE BALLERINAS (2021) are already out, all with St. Martin's Press!
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Suzanne Redfearn
Suzanne Redfearn is the award-winning author of Six novels: Hush Little Baby, No Ordinary Life, In an Instant, and Hadley & Grace, Moment in Time, and Where Butterflies Wander. In addition to being an author, she’s also an architect specializing in residential and commercial design. She lives in Laguna Beach, California, where she and her husband own two restaurants: Lumberyard and Slice Pizza and Beer. You can find her at her website, www.SuzanneRedfearn.com, on Facebook at SuzanneRedfearnAuthor, or on Instagram at SuzanneRedfearn.
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Karelia Stetz-Waters
Karelia Stetz-Waters remembers a time when happy endings romantic love was a holy grail she thought she would never find. Stories about lesbians all ended tragically. At seventeen, she was certain the best she could hope for was to die nobly for the woman she loved (who would never love her back, of course). Four years later, she saw her true love across a crowded room, and they have been together for twenty-plus years.
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Knowing that happily-ever-after is possible for everyone, Stetz-Waters has made it her life’s mission to craft happy endings about women finding true love with other women. She is also on a quest to spread “cliteracy” across the country, using her work as a romance writer to teach readers about female sexual anatomy, desire, -
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Sara Blaedel
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In 2016 she published the first book "The Undertakers Daughter" in a new trilogy set in Racine, Wisconsin:
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April Genevieve Tucholke
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Frances Liardet
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Luis Sepúlveda
(Ovalle, Chile, 1949 – Oviedo, España, 2020) Luis Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist. Exiled during the Pinochet regime, most of his work was written in Germany and Spain, where he lived until his death.
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Author of more than thirty books, translated into more than fifty languages, highlighting An Old Man Who Read Love Stories (Tusquets Ed., 2019) and The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Him to Fly (Tusquets Ed., 1996). Among his numerous awards are the Gabriela Mistral Poetry Award (Chile), the Primavera Novel Award (Spain) and the Chiara Award for Literary Career (Italy). Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and doctor honoris causa by the universities of Toulon (France) an -
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Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaign -
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Mariane Pearl
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Pearl, being of Dutch-Jewish, Afro-Latino-Cuban and Chinese Cuban ancestry and raised in Paris, Van Neyenhoff met Daniel Pearl while he was on assignment in Paris.
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Gin Phillips
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Gretchen Rubin
Out now: "Secrets of Adulthood"
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before distills her key insights into simple truths for living with greater satisfaction, clarity, and happiness. Order your copy of "Secrets of Adulthood" today.
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Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature.
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Mariane Pearl
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Simone de Beauvoir
Works of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, existentialist, and feminist, include The Second Sex in 1949 and The Coming of Age , a study in 1970 of views of different cultures on the old.
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Simone de Beauvoir, an author and philosopher, wrote novels, monographs, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. People now best know She Came to Stay and The Mandarins , her metaphysical novels. Her treatise, a foundational contemporary tract, of 1949 detailed analysis of oppression of women. -
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Leslie Pietrzyk
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Lucia Greenhouse
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Jean Rhys
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She moved to England at the age of 16 years in 1906 and worked unsuccessfully as a chorus girl. In the 1920s, she relocated to Europe, travelled as a Bohemian artist, and took up residence sporadically in Paris. During this period, Rhys, familiar with modern art and literature, lived near poverty and acquired the alcoholism that persisted throughout the rest of her life. Her experie -
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Pamela's newest novel, The Queen of Paris, will be released April 7, 2020 by Blackstone Publications. This electrifying story, based on the real life of Coco Chanel during WWII as the Nazi's occupied Paris, reveals the underside of the celebrated icon, as has never before been fully told. The Queen of Paris is available for Pre-order now.
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Janice Weizman
**I'm pleased to announce that The Wayward Moon has bee reissued with Toby Press. Click here to see the new edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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Janice Weizman is a Canadian-born writer living in Israel. Her first novel, The Wayward Moon, was the Recipient of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal and the winner of the 2013 Midwest Book Award.
Her second novel, Our Little Histories, came out in August 2023 with Toby Press.
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Judith Richards
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