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P. J. O’Rourke
P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) was an author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores…
Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann“Decades ahead of its time . . . Mesmerizing . . . The equation of emotional dependencies with drug addiction in one comprehensive personality disorder is, if anything, more chic…
Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann is a legend in American publishing. Her debut novel, Valley of the Dolls, published in 1966, has sold over 40 million copies in thirty languages. Susann was the…
Sherman Alexie
Sherman J. Alexie, Jr., was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane….
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Born in 1972 in the Metn region of Lebanon, Nathalie Abi-Ezzi and her family moved to England in 1983 when Israel invaded Lebanon. This is her first novel.
Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction), she is the author…
David Abrams
David Abrams served in the U.S. Army for twenty years, and was deployed to Iraq in 2005 as part of a public affairs team. His stories have appeared in Esquire,…
Melanie Abrams
Melanie Abrams teaches writing at UC Berkeley and received her MFA from UNC Greensboro. She is married to the novelist Vikram Chandra and they live in Oakland, California.
Lauren Acampora
Lauren Acampora is the author of The Wonder Garden, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the New England Book Award; The Paper Wasp, longlisted for…
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (1948 – 1997) was an influential postmodernist writer and performance artist, whose many books include Blood and Guts in High School; Don Quixote; Literal Madness; Empire of the…
