Fiction Participants
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Larry Baker
A Good Man
Larry Baker, author of A Good Man and Flamingo Rising, currently lives in Iowa City, IA, where he is working on a novel about adultery between an older woman and much younger man. He welcomes any relevant anecdotes from Virginia readers.
Genre:Fiction
Marva A. Barnett
Victor Hugo on Things That Matter
Marva Barnett created Victor Hugo on Things That Matter to share Hugo's modern ideas, passion for life, and exquisite language with English-speaking readers of French. Marva teaches French literature at UVA, where she founded and directs the Teaching Resource Center.
Genres:Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Christine Blevins
Midwife of the Blue Ridge
Christine Blevins' historical novel, The Tory Widow, is the first in a planned trilogy. Her first novel, Midwife of the Blue Ridge, takes place in eighteenth century Colonial Virginia.
Genre:Fiction
Adam Bradley
Three Days Before the Shooting: The Unfinished Second Novel (by Ralph Ellison, eds. John F. Callhand and Adam Bradley)
Adam Bradley is the co-editor of Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting, the Modern Library's 1,200 page edition of Ellison's unfinished second novel. He is also the author of Ralph Ellison in Progress, a critical study of Ellison's fiction.
Genres:Fiction, Non-Fiction
Carleen Brice
Children of the Waters
Carleen Brice is a blogger and author of several nonfiction books as well as the novels Orange Mint and Honey and Children of the Waters.
Genres:Fiction, Publishing
Laura Brodie
The Widow's Season: A Novel
Laura Brodie's debut novel, The Widow's Season, was inspired by her UVA dissertation on widows in English literature. Her memoir, Love in a Time of Homeschooling, will be published by Harper in April. She teaches English at Washington and Lee.
Genre:Fiction
John Casey
The Half Life of Happiness
John Casey is the author of The Half Life of Happiness and Spartina for which he won the National Book Award. He has translated several novels from Italian and teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Genres:Fiction, Non-Fiction
Paula Chase
Flipping the Script
Paula Chase is the author of Flipping the Script, So Not the Drama, and others in the Del Rio Bay series which helped launch the Kensington Books YA line for multi-culti suburbanite teens. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters.
Genres:Fiction, Publishing, Family
Sheila Curran
Everyone She Loved
Sheila Curran, a former UVA faculty wife, lives in Tallahasse. In her second novel, Everyone She Loved, four women band together to shelter their late benefactor's husband and daughters from intrusive relatives and the alluring certainties of one perfect stranger.
Genre:Fiction
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