“T” Francisco Ignacio Taibo II, a.k.a. Paco Ignacio Taibo II or PIT II, is a Mexican mystery writer. His most well-known character is named Hector Belascoarán Shayne. This eccentric character apparently attracts many little flying metal objects. He also has a huge distaste for any kind of authority. I have not read any of PIT II’s…
“S” I love Dr. Seuss—now as much as I ever did. The man was a genius. Theodor Seuss Geisel, born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, is definitely one of my favorite all time authors. I tend to forget about him since he was primarily a children’s author/cartoonist. His parents were German immigrants and worked hard…
“P” Dawn Powell was an American novelist born in 1896 in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and she died in 1965 of colon cancer in New York. Her mother died when she was young. Her father remarried and Powell and her stepmother did not get along (as neither did her two sisters). Powell ran away to her divorced…
“N” I decided to look for a journalist with an “N” name and I found Naomi Klein. Klein’s subject matters are anti-globalization, anti-war, anti-capitalism, and environmental ones. What an amazing author, activist, and filmmaker I have found. Klein is Canadian and attended the University of Toronto. She went to work as a journalist before graduation.…
“K” Kathleen Kent is my favorite local author. She writes historical fiction and has branched out into the noir genre as well. Her first novel, The Heretic’s Daughter, was written about her ancestor, Martha Carrier, who was executed for being a witch during the Salem trials. The prequel to that book, Kent’s second work of…
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