Featured Author: Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty

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Laura Moriarty is the author of The Center of Everything, The Rest of Her Life, and While I’m Falling.  She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Featured Author : Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson

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JON RONSON is a writer and documentary filmmaker. His latest book, The Psychopath Test is a New York Times bestseller. His books Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats were both international bestsellers. The Men Who Stare at Goats was made into a major motion picture in 2009, starring George Clooney. Ronson lives in London.

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Featured Author: Julie Klam

 
  
Julie Klam

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Julie Klam grew up in Bedford, New York. After attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and interning at Late Night with David Letterman, she went on to write for such publications as O: The Oprah Magazine, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, and The New York Times Magazine and for the VH1 television show Pop-Up Video, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Writing. She lives with her husband, daughter, and three dogs in Manhattan.

 

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Featured Author: Khaled Hosseini

 

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. The Kite Runner, his first novel, is an international bestseller, published in forty countries. His second novel, the #1 bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns, was published in 2007. In 2006 he was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to the United States Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California.

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Featured Author: Steven Johnson

 

   
Steven Johnson

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Steven Johnson is the author of the bestsellers The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, Everything Bad Is Good for You and Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, as well as Emergence and Interface Culture. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites--most recently, outside.in--and writes for Time, Wired, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Featured Author: Sloane Crosley

   
Sloane Crosley

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Sloane Crosley’s essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Observer, the Village Voice, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Salon, Black Book, Radar, Maxim, and The Believer. She is also the Associate Director of Publicity at Vintage/Anchor Books in New York.

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Featured Author : Ann Brashares

 

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares is the author of the New York Times-bestselling young adult novels The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants, and Forever in Blue, and the New York Times–bestselling adult novel The Last Summer (of You and Me).

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Featured Author : Jean Kwok

 

Jean Kwok

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Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Brooklyn as a child, where she worked with her family in a sweatshop. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in Fiction at Columbia.

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Featured Author : Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as several novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives in Northern California.

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Featured Author : Walter Mosley

 
 
Walter Mosley

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Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated and beloved writers. His mysteries appear regularly on the New York Times bestseller list, and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City.

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