Margaret Atwood is the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Asassin and The Year of the Flood. She is the author of more than forty books — novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. At BookExpo America 2011, Atwood capped ABA’s Day of Education with her closing plenary speech.
This Insight Stage event, “Magic and Myth for Modern Middle-Grade Readers,” featured Carson Ellis, Colin Meloy, and Lauren Oliver. This session was moderated by Jennifer Brown.
Hot trends in Italy, where a great deal of fiction is in translation, the majority in English; Italian author success stories in the US and the new faces of Italian literature coming across the pond.
A panoramic overview of publishing in Italy and today’s challenges, including the impact of new technologies.
Jane Fonda is an actress, fitness instructor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and activist. Prime Time is her inspiring new book on love, health, fitness, sex, spirit, friendship to make the most of all your life.
Jane Lynch is an actress and singer. Lynch has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role as Sue Sylvester in Glee, and has reached cult icon status for her roles in comedies Best in Show, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Role Models. Lynch’s new book, Happy Accidents, is a memoir about her life as a journey toward happiness. In her funny and honest way, she wants to assure everyone to relax — it will be alright!
Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange will provide you with an editor’s perspective on some of the Fall’s new Middle School discoveries and potential breakouts. This video features Liesa Abrams, Executive Editor, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing with Lisa McMann’s The Unwanteds; Donna Bray, VP & Co-Publisher, Balzer + Bray with Colin Meloy’s Wildwood; Lisa A. Sandell, Executive Editor, Scholastic Press with Matthew Kirby’s Icefall; Jennifer Besser, VP and Publisher,...
The 2011 BEA Thursday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers. This video features Erik Larson whose The Devil in the White City became a #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller in both hardcover and paper, and remained on the paperback list for three years. It won an Edgar Award for nonfiction crime writing, and was a finalist for a National Book...
The 2011 BEA Thursday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers. This video features Anne Enright, a critically acclaimed, internationally-bestselling Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a nonfiction book, and four novels, including The Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and was named the 2008 Irish Novel of the Yea...
Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange will provide you with an editor’s perspective on some of the Fall’s new YA discoveries and potential breakouts. This event featured Courtney Bongiolatti, Editor, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing with Michelle Hodkin’s Unbecoming of Mara Dyer; Margret Raymo, Sr. Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with Joe Schreiber’s Au Revoir Crazy European Chick; Alvina Ling, Executive Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers with...
