Authors

I totally forgot about my next author’s birthday — Marijane Satrapi, author of Persepolis!  I’m going to have to do the full post about her sometime next week, no time left today.  But, I at least wanted the birthday wish to go out on the appropriate day, even if she won’t know it. Also, I [...]

This week’s Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) to find some fun facts about authors.  I’ve been doing something like this for about a month where I do a post about an author on their birthday.  So far I’ve written about E. E. Cummings, Buzz Bissinger, and Margaret [...]

I first read Gone With The Wind when I was in middle school because it was the longest book I could find on my mother’s shelf.  My mom was also a huge fan of the movie, so I wanted to know what the story was about.  I remember being totally spellbound by the love story [...]

Welcome to my second author’s birthday post!  Buzz Bissinger was born on November 1, 1954 in new York City.  He is, I think, most well-know for his book Friday Night Lights, a piece of literary journalism that explores the impact of high school football in Odessa, Texas in 1988.  The book was eventually turned into [...]

Today marks two important days — E.E. Cummings’ birthday, and the start of what I hope is going to be a regular feature on my blog — Birthdays!  I went through a list of my favorite authors to find their birthday, and now I hope I can add a little post about them on their [...]

I spent a lot of time yesterday reading Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Didion was one of the major authors during the New Journalism movement of the 1960s, and actually one of the few women that gets remembered widely from the era. More recently, Didion wrote the memoir A Year of Magical Thinking that [...]