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Gail Carson Levine (Who Wrote That?)
Gail Carson Levine’s first published novel, Ella Enchanted, won a Newbery Honor, became a bestseller, and was the basis for a popular movie. A retelling of the classic Cinderella tale, Ella Enchanted was only the beginning for Levine. She has written nine more books and is still going strong. But Levine’s road to success was not easy. She wrote dozens of books and took many writing classes before her work was ever published. Gail Carson Levine is a well-crafted and colorfully illustrated biography...
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Ernest J. Gaines (Who Wrote That?)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and author of the classic The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines is one of America's most respected authors. But when he was a young boy, the possibility of having such a career would have been nearly unimaginable. Gaines was the son of African-American sharecroppers whose family had worked on the same Louisiana plantation since slavery.Yet, Gaines somehow carved out a career as an acclaimed writer.
Charles Bukowski - The Rooming House Madrigals Poems deal with rejection, history, barbershops, friendship, death, longing, loneliness, and disappointment. This is the Bukowski of 1946-1966. The poet of gritty backwaters of great faceless cities, rainy bus stations and flophouse one-night stands; also of the moon shining in the gutter, and of the morning-after joys of making love in the sun.
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Edgar Allan Poe (Who Wrote That?)
Edgar Allan Poe not only wrote such dark and uncanny works as "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," but also lived a tragic and similarly gloomy life. Credited as the father of the modern horror story and the first detective novel, Poe still inspires legions of fans to this day.
