Alice Sebold is the bestselling
author of the novels Lucky (1999), The Lovely Bones (2002), and The Almost Moon (2007).
Not exact matches
When: September 21st Why: It's not every day that the
author of a critically acclaimed
novel gets the chance to not only adapt their book for the big screen, but direct it as well, so consider Stephen Chbosky a very
lucky man.
Hugh Howey:
Author of the five - part serial
novel Wool, Howey is possibly one
of the
luckier self - published
authors to achieve stardom.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work
of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny — a true wonder
of a
novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment
of the
author as «a treasure - house
of story, and we are
lucky to have him.»
Khong, the former executive editor
of Lucky Peach magazine and the
author of All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food, makes us laugh once again as she shares the secret behind her first
novel's diary style and shakes her fist at memory.
The
author of such critically acclaimed books as Aquamarine and
Lucky in the Corner, Carol Anshaw returns with a sure - to - be breakout
novel, Carry the One.
Nancy Zafris is the
author of two
novels,
Lucky Strike and The Metal Shredders (2002), and a book
of stories, The People I Know (1990).
He is the
author of a number
of novels, including Native Tongue, Strip Tease, Stormy Weather and
Lucky You.
And we're
lucky enough to be joined by Howard V. Hendrix, award - winning
author of seven
novels and countless short stories, who will be providing the expert notes for each writer!
In one
of his
novels, the late
author John Williams writes
of his protagonist: «In his extreme youth, [he] had thought
of love as an absolute state
of being to which, if one were
lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven
of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia.»