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BEA 2014: Blessed and Betrayed: Lisa Scottoline
With more than 25 books under her belt since her debut novel, Wherever Mary Went, was published in 1993, Lisa Scottoline is a veritable book-writing machine.
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BEA 2014: Ice Cream Flavors Her Plot: Susan Jane Gilman
Susan Jane Gilman always planned to be a novelist, but took a detour to the nonfiction bestseller lists with Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, and Kiss My Tiara. Her fiction debut, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street (Grand Central, June), is off to a rousing start, named one of the “Best Summer Books 2014” by Publishers Weekly.
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BEA 2014: A Civil War Female Voice: Laird Hunt
An obscure but fascinating aspect of the Civil War, when hundreds of women disguised as men enlisted in the army as Union soldiers to fight, is at the heart of Neverhome (Little, Brown; Sept.) by Laird Hunt, the author of five novels and a collection of short stories and a two-time finalist for the PEN Center USA fiction award.
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BEA 2014: 'New York Times' Sportswriter: Harvey Araton
With a byline long familiar to readers of the New York Times sports pages, Harvey Araton is also the author of six critically acclaimed nonfiction sports books, most recently the New York Times bestseller Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry and Baseball’s Greatest Gift.
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BEA 2014: Jane Lynch Adds Credit to Her Resume
Jane Lynch has displayed her diverse talents on a number of stages.
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BEA 2014: The Trail of Lady Liberty: Elizabeth Mitchell
Most folks believe the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, but Elizabeth Mitchell, in pursuit of researching another topic, came across some diaries of sculptor Frédéric August Bartholdi and learned the true story behind the statue’s creation.
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BEA 2014: Wondering On: R.J. Palacio
Wonder, R.J. Palacio’s 2012 debut novel about Auggie, a fifth-grade boy born with a facial deformity who’s attending mainstream school for the first time, made a critical and commercial splash.
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BEA 2014: A Satisfying Debut Collection: Marthe Jocelyn and Richard Scrimger
“We like each other and we drive each other crazy—that’s a good match for writing,” says Richard Scrimger, describing partnering with fellow Canadian author Marthe Jocelyn on Viminy Crowe’s Comic Book (Tundra, May), illustrated by Claudia Davila.
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BEA 2014: Vintage Reels: Farran Smith Nehme
Thanks to the parents of Farran Smith Nehme, she became a fan of old movies during her childhood in the 1970s when the family would watch them together on the then burgeoning cable TV stations.
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BEA 2014: Theatre Noir: Tracy Letts
A small newspaper item about a murderous family in Florida sparked Tracy Letts’s distinguished playwriting career when he was only 26.
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BEA 2014: Blue Skies Ahead: M.O. Walsh
Louisiana writer M.O. Walsh (known as Neal) wonders whether the Buzz Books editors were confused or had a head injury when they picked his debut novel (My Sunshine Away, Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books, Jan. 2015) to be a BEA Buzz Book.
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BEA 2014: Man of Many Voices: Eric Bogosian
“Characters are everything,” says New York Obie-winning actor and writer Eric Bogosian.
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BEA 2014: Traveling In Time: Emily St. John Mandel
It all began, Emily St. John Mandel says, when she “thought it would be interesting to write about the life of an actor.
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BEA 2014: Welcome to the Wildlife: Tai Moses
It’s probably safe to assume most of you aren’t expecting to encounter any wildlife on the walk or taxi ride from your hotel to the Javits Center.
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BEA 2014: Sex Academic Style: Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s favorite sex therapist, will be celebrating double on June 4.
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BEA 2014: Coming from a Place of Passion: Jeff Hobbs
Jeff Hobbs went to Yale. So did Robert Peace. Jeff Hobbs went on to write a novel, The Tourists, that became a national bestseller.
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BEA 2014: The Strength of Friendship: Robyn Carr
Robyn Carr, a New York Times bestselling romance novelist, has returned to women’s fiction with Four Friends (Mira, Mar.), the story of 40-something women living in the affluent suburban San Francisco neighborhood of Mill Valley.
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BEA 2014: Uncovering Family Secrets: Garth Stein
The last time Garth Stein was at Book Expo it was 2008, and he admits he was happy to get “spill” from Tom Wolfe’s (I Am Charlotte Simmons) autographing line.
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BEA 2014: A Love Letter to Literature: Azar Nafisi
Readers who were inspired by Azar Nafisi’s paean to literature in Reading Lolita in Tehran—there were enough to keep the book on the New York Times bestseller list for 117 weeks—can rejoice at the appearance of The Republic of Imagination (Viking, Oct.), an homage to American literature and a reflection of what it means to become an American.
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BEA 2014: Garth Nix Returns to Familiar Terrain
It has been more than a decade since Australian author Garth Nix published Abhorsen, the third volume (after Sabriel and Lirael) in his Old Kingdom fantasy series.
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