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Fourteen Days
''Fourteen Days'' is a novel collaboratively written by 36 authors and edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston. The book is set in a Lower East Side tenement and consists of fourteen chapters taking place in fourteen days, beginning on March 31, 2020. Published by HarperCollins on February 6, 2024, the book is a project by the Authors Guild and is written as a frame story A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either fo ... narrated by the tenement's superintendent. References Novels about the COVID-19 pandemic Novels set in Manhattan Novels by Margaret Atwood Novels by Douglas Preston HarperCollins books 2024 American novels Collaborative novels 2024 Canadian novels {{2020s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders (born July 24, 1969) is an American writer specializing in speculative fiction. She has written several novels as well as shorter fiction, published in magazines and on websites, and hosted podcasts; these works cater to both adults and adolescent readers. Her first science fantasy novels, such as '' All the Birds in the Sky'' and '' The City in the Middle of the Night'', cover mature topics, received critical acclaim, and won major literary awards like the Nebula Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Her young adult trilogy ''Unstoppable'' has been popular among younger audiences. Shorter fiction has been collected into ''Six Months, Three Days, Five Others'' and ''Even Greater Mistakes''. In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. Her 2011 novelette " Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo Award and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and Theod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the ''Magic Tree House'' series, which sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the ''Magic Tree House'' series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the ''Magic Tree House'' series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will. Biography Childhood Mary Pope Osborne grew up in a military family, alongside her sister, Natalie Pope Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Vail
Rachel Vail (born July 25, 1966) is an American author of children's and young adult literature, young adult books. Life She was born in Manhattan, grew up in New Rochelle, New York (state), New York, and is a graduate of Georgetown University. Her debut novel ''Wonder'' won an Editor's Choice award from ''Booklist'' in 1991, and in 1992 her second novel, ''Do-Over'', won that award also. Bibliography Young adult novels *''Wonder'' (1991) *''Do-Over'' (1992) *''Ever After'' (1994) *''Daring to Be Abigail'' (1996) *The Friendship Ring series **''If You Only Knew'' (1998) **''Please, Please, Please'' (1998) **''Not That I Care'' (1998) **''What Are Friends For'' (1999) **''Popularity Contest'' (2000) **''Fill in The Blank'' (2000) *''Never Mind: a Twin novel'', co-written with Edward Irving Wortis, Avi (2004) *''If We Kiss'' (2005) *''You, Maybe'' *''Lucky'' (2008) *''Gorgeous'' (2009) *''Brilliant'' (2010) *''Kiss Me Again'' (2013) *''Unfriended'', Puffin Books, 2015. , *''We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea (born August 20, 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Life Luis Urrea is the son of Alberto Urrea Murray, of Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico and Phyllis Dashiell, born in Staten Island, New York. He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and listed as an American born abroad. Both his parents worked in San Diego. The family moved to Logan Heights in South San Diego, because he had tuberculosis and they felt he would recover in the US. The family moved again in 1965 to Clairemont, a newer subdivision in the city of San Diego. His mother encouraged him to write and encouraged him to attend college and to apply for grants that would help pay for his college education. He attended the University of California, San Diego, earning an undergraduate degree in writing in 1977. Urrea completed his graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His father was murdered on a trip to his home village in 1977, seeking money there to spen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Turow
Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow worked as a lawyer for a decade before writing full-time, and has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County. Films have been based on several of his books. Life and career Turow was born in Chicago, to a family of Belarusian Jewish descent. His father was an M.D., but it was his mother Rita whom he credits as serving as his "beacon" and shaping him with her "love, support, and boundless faith in me." In contrast, his father wanted him to become a medical doctor. After ''Presumed Innocent (novel), Presumed Innocent'' became successful, his father told him, "I still think you could have gone to medical school." He attended New Trier High School and graduated from Amherst College in 1970, as a brother of the Alp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Truong
Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, '' The Book of Salt'', was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written ''Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose'', along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction. Early life and education Truong was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. In 1975, at the age of six, Truong and her mother left Vietnam for the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Her father, an executive for an international oil company, initially stayed behind for work but left the country after the fall of Saigon. The family lived in North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. Truong arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, ''Heads of the Colored People'' (2019), won the ''Los Angeles Times'' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction. Biography She was born in San Diego, California, in 1983. She earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in creative writing from University of Illinois and Vanderbilt University. Her first book, ''Heads of the Colored People'', won the ''Los Angeles Times'' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, PEN Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, among other prizes. ''Heads of the Colored People'' has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese. She also won a 2019 Whiting Award. She was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in ''New York'', '' The Cut'', ''The Root'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The White Review'', ''Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampton Sides
Wade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. He is the author of '' Hellhound on His Trail,'' '' Ghost Soldiers,'' '' Blood and Thunder'', ''On Desperate Ground'', and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. Sides is editor-at-large for '' Outside'' magazine and has written for such periodicals as '' National Geographic'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', '' Men's Journal'', '' The American Scholar'', '' Smithsonian'', and ''The Washington Post''. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Early life A native of Memphis, Sides attended PDS Memphis and Memphis University School, and graduated from Yale with a BA in history. In 2017, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Colorado College. Sides lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Anne Goodwin Sides, a journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |