Featuring:
Colum McCann
Let The Great World Spin
Colum McCann won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. His other works include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. A contributor to the New Yorker, GQ, and The Paris Review among others, he lives in New York.
Genre:Fiction
E. Ethelbert Miller
The 5th Inning
E. Ethelbert Miller, author of The 5th Inning, has published nine books of poetry and edited three. A literary activist, he is Director of the African American Center at Howard University, and was chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
Genres:Non-Fiction, Poetry
Lee Smith
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
Lee Smith is the author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger and fifteen previous books of fiction, including bestsellers Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls, which won the Southern Book Critics Award in Fiction. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Genre:Fiction
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge. Her previous work includes Abide with Me and Amy and Isabelle and numerous short stories. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City.
Genre:Fiction
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