Posts Tagged ‘author’
Eoin Colfer
April 6th, 2010 by Louise | Authors, Children's, Fiction, Young Adults
In "My Dirty Literary Secret," the author mentions that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy consists of five books that Douglas Adams himself wrote. Did you know that there is a sixth book in the trilogy that is not written by Douglas Adams? And Another Thing by Eoin (pronounced as "Owen") Colfer is the 6th book in the Hitchhiker's series. Before he suffered a heart attack in 2001, Adams had told his wife that he planned on writing a 6th book, though he had been unsuccessful after several attempts. I bet I wasn't alone in thinking,
Author: Toni Morrison
March 2nd, 2010 by Louise | Authors
Have you ever wished that you could read great writing, I mean great writing, by an author who is still living today? It seems that most great authors only receive recognition after they've already left. What would it be like to discover this generation's Hawthorne or Chaucer? The literary canon is finally starting to open up to new authors who aren't just the same dead white males (please excuse the frankness) that always have made the list. Finally, we're seeing females make the canon, and we're seeing novels become canonized before their authors have found their graves. We're even seeing a
