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BEA 2013: Chris Matthews: The Clash of Political Titans

By Hilary S. Kayle | 06/01/2013 @ 12:00AM

You can hear longing for the old days when MSNBC Hardball anchor Chris Matthews talks about his latest book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (Simon & Schuster, Nov.).
BEA 2013: Gennifer Albin: Weaver of Stories

By Claire Kirch | 06/01/2013 @ 12:00AM

Gennifer Albin explains that her inspiration for Crewel, the first novel in her YA Crewel World trilogy (2012), was sparked by the painting Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle by the Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo.
BEA 2013: Neil Gaiman: Fortunately, Making Good Art

By Claire Kirch | 06/01/2013 @ 12:00AM

Neil Gaiman is scheduled to speak this morning, 10 a.m.–11 a.m., on why he thinks fiction is dangerous, but since he’s an old hand at attending BEA, he knows he’ll have a “captive audience of booksellers” in conference room 1E12–1E13.
BEA 2013: Diana Gabaldon: Wrinkles In Time

By Claire Kirch | 06/01/2013 @ 12:00AM

Each of her Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon emphasizes, contains enough backstory that it can be read either as a stand-alone or as part of the series—which she recommends, however, is best read in chronological order.
A Resonant Crime: Robert K. Tanenbaum

By Wendy Werris | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Robert K. Tanenbaum is a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney who now lives in Beverly Hills (he moved to California in 1979 and went into private practice).
BEA 2013: A Tutoring Friendship: PW Talks with Bob Shacochis and Kent Wascom

By Lucinda Dyer | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

They met as teacher and student in a graduate nonfiction workshop, Bob Shacochis, taught at Florida State University, Shacochis a National Book Award–winning author with a heralded reputation as a novelist, short story writer, and journalist; Kent Wascom, a young aspiring novelist.
BEA 2013: Tony Kushner: From Stage to Page

By Hilary S. Kayle | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Only after the renowned Lincoln movie hit the screens did the idea come up to publish Lincoln: The Screenplay (TCG Books, Jan.).
BEA 2013: Bill Bryson: Serendipitous Summer

By Hilary S. Kayle | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Bestselling writer Bill Bryson stumbled upon the concurrence of Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic the same summer that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs.
BEA 2013: Wendy Corsi Staub: Internet Thriller

By Hilary S. Kayle | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

A few years ago, bestselling writer Wendy Corsi Staub and her agent of nearly 20 years, Laura Blake Peterson, were commiserating about having middle school–aged children with access to the Internet and social networking.
BEA 2013: Stephen L. Carter: Playing the Conspiracy Theorist

By Diane Patrick | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Today, 11 a.m.–noon, meet Yale law professor and bestselling author Stephen L. Carter (The Emperor of Ocean Park) at the HarperCollins booth (2038) as he signs galleys of his new thriller, The Church Builder (Zondervan, Oct.).
BEA 2013: Tom Barbash: Empire State of Mind

By Jessamine Chan | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

“Even though I’m living in California, my fictional life has stayed on the East Coast,” says Tom Barbash, who grew up on New York City’s Upper West Side, the setting for several stories in his first collection: Stay Up with Me (Ecco Press, Sept.).
BEA 2013: Jamie Ford: Depression-Era Novel

By Hilary S. Kayle | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Thanks to a series in Seattlecalled “Bedtime Stories,” sponsored by the nonprofit Humanities Washington, author Jamie Ford wrote a short story that changed his writing direction.
BEA 2013: Pierce Brown: Six Is the Charm

By Diane Patrick | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Twenty-something Pierce Brown has written six novels, but none has been published until now.
BEA 2013: Deborah Serani: Depressed No More

By Hilary S. Kayle | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Treated for depression as a teenager, Dr. Deborah Serani found her treatment “life changing.”
BEA 2013: Ann Romney: Food and Family Matters

By Hilary S. Kayle | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Ann Romney, former first lady of Mass-achusetts, wife to husband, Mitt, for 44 years, and mother of five with 21 grandchildren, certainly knows her way around the kitchen.
BEA 2013: Richelle Mead: Tackling the Adult World

By Bridget Kinsella | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Richelle Mead says she has been writing since she was a child, first picture books and then short stories.
BEA 2013: Betsy Franco: Honoring a Neglected Muse

By Suzanne Mantell | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Inspired by the neglected 19th-century woman sculptor Camille Claudel—known, if at all, as Auguste Rodin’s model and muse—Betsy Franco spins an elaborate fantasy in Naked (Tyrus, Nov.), her debut adult novel.
BEA 2013: Simone Elkeles: Football Passion Inspires Series

By Joy Bean | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Coming from Chicago, Simone Elkeles says there’s no getting around being a big sports fan.
BEA 2013: Oliver Jeffers: Sharing a Pair of Projects

By Sally Lodge | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

The prolific Oliver Jeffers has been as busy as ever.
BEA 2013: Brandon Mull Creates a New Fantasy World

By Sally Lodge | 05/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Brandon Mull, author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven series, charts a new course with Spirit Animals, a seven-book, middle-grade fantasy series from Scholastic.

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