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BEA 2013: Deborah Serani: Depressed No More
Treated for depression as a teenager, Dr. Deborah Serani found her treatment “life changing.”
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BEA 2013: Ann Romney: Food and Family Matters
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.
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BEA 2013: Richelle Mead: Tackling the Adult World
Richelle Mead says she has been writing since she was a child, first picture books and then short stories.
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BEA 2013: Betsy Franco: Honoring a Neglected Muse
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.
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BEA 2013: Simone Elkeles: Football Passion Inspires Series
Coming from Chicago, Simone Elkeles says there’s no getting around being a big sports fan.
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BEA 2013: Oliver Jeffers: Sharing a Pair of Projects
The prolific Oliver Jeffers has been as busy as ever.
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BEA 2013: Brandon Mull Creates a New Fantasy World
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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BEA 2013: Lian Dolan: Tapping the Bard
It’s no wonder that Lian Dolan, author of Elizabeth the First Wife (Prospect Park Books, May) has infused her romantic comedy novel with Shakespearean themes: she’s been reading and seeing Shakespeare’s plays since the second grade in Fairfield, Conn.; took field trips with her middle school class to watch “Shakespeare in the Park” in New York; and was deeply inspired by the one-year Shakespeare course she took at Pomona College that included student performances of the Bard’s work.
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BEA 2013: Rita Williams-Garcia Continues a Family Saga
“Family stories are how we remember,” says Rita Williams-Garcia.
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BEA 2013: Larry Watson: Back to the Future
Since a fancy pen is more powerful than any sword, Larry Watson will sign copies of Let Him Go (Milkweed, Sept.) today at Table 3 in the Autographing Area, 1–2 p.m., with the same Waterman pen he used the last time he was at this annual booksellers convention.
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BEA 2013: Mika Brzezinski: Weighty Issues
When it comes to eating habits and body image, you might not think that someone who is too thin would have much in common with someone who is grossly overweight, but that’s the conclusion MSNBC Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski came to when she and her good friend and co-writer Diane Smith embarked on a journey together to confront their obsession with food.
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BEA 2013: Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Write
As a young girl, Elizabeth Gilbert was forbidden to touch a family heirloom that belonged to her great grandfather, a 1784 edition of Captain Cook’s voyages around the world.
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BEA 2013: Hoffman Meets New Challenges
Bestselling author Alice Hoffman got involved with fund-raising for breast cancer research following her own bout with the illness 15 years ago.
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Rutu Modan: Family Fictions
Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan, best known for her Eisner Award winning 2008 graphic novel Exit Wounds (D&Q), returns with a new graphic novel called The Property.
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Rebel With a Cause: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“It’s all right; I’m a Unitarian,” says Elizabeth Marshall Thomas as we settle into chairs in front of the altar of the Unitarian Universalist First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass., to talk.
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Life at the End of the Day: Sue Halpern
It is a raw, windy morning in late April in Vermont, but at least it’s not snowing, as it did, according to locals, three times the previous week.
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Not Your Summer Camp: Anton DiSclafani
On an ordinary January day, which was also the day after Anton DiSclafani’s manuscript went out on submission, she received some extraordinary news.
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Meet Montaro Caine
Over the last 30 years, revered Academy Award–winning actor, director, activist, gentleman, and author Sidney Poitier has examined his life at different periods.
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Too Angry to Pray? Ian Punnett
Ian Punnett writes what he knows.



