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Overview
Profiles of and reading lists for 100 of today's most popular nonfiction authors have been gathered together in this affordable, single source reference, which covers representatives from all major nonfiction genres—true adventure, true crime, travel and environmental narrative, science, history, life stories, and investigative writing. While focusing on such contemporary authors as Sebastian Junger, Frances Mayes, Joan Didion, Bill Bryson, and Anne Lamott, a few classics whose works are still in print and widely read (e.g., Truman Capote, M.F.K. Fisher, and Carl Sagan) are also included. In addition to information about the personal and writing lives of this fascinating and diverse group, users will find a list of their published works.
Editorial Reviews
School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up
Some books belong in print and others are better covered online. The brief, informative biographies collected here are insightful and clearly written, and the lists of works and sources of further information are helpful, but most of the authors introduced (from Diane Ackerman and Stephen Ambrose to Tobias Wolff and Bob Woodward) can be found in Gale's Literature Resource Center (specifically, in the "Contemporary Authors" file). What this book does well is collect a group of authors for serendipitous browsing and offer interesting insight into their overall oeuvre, but where it fails is in adding new value. Several of the entries don't include a picture. A genre index includes only the page numbers; there is no index listing authors by genre. Though this book isn't everything readers would hope for, it may be of some use in libraries without access to Gale or other similar databases.-Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
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Meet the Author
BERNARD A. DREW, is a freelance writer/editor, and author of numerous books, including 100 Most Popular Genre Authors (Libraries Unlimited, 2005).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Edward Abbey
Diane Ackerman
Caroline Alexander
Stephen Ambrose
Maya Angelou
Dave Barry
Rick Bass
Wendell Berry
Mark Bowden
Taylor Branch
Bill Bryson
Tim Cahill
Truman Capote
Rachel Carson
Jung Chang
Deepak Chopra
Ted Conover
Richard Dawkins
Jared Diamond
Joan Didion
Annie Dillard
W.E.B. Du Bois
Pete Earley
Barbara Ehrenreich
Tim F. Flannery
Thomas Fleming
John Hope Franklin
Ian Frazier
Henry Louis Gates
Jane Goodall
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Linda Greenlaw
Lee Gutkind
David Halberstam
Pete Hamill
Stephen Hawking
William Least Heat-Moon
James Herriott
John Hersey
Seymour Hersh
Laura Hillenbrand
bell hooks
Tony Horwitz
Pico Iyer
Sebastian Junger
Michio Kaku
Tracy Kidder
Jonathan Kozol
Jon Krakauer
Jane Kramer
Mark Kurlansky
Annie LaBastille
Annie LaMott
William Langeweische
Erik Larson
Michael Lewis
Robert Lindsey
Barry Lopez
Peter Maas
Dave Marsh
Peter Matthiessen
Frances Mayes
Peter Mayle
Frank McCourt
David McCullough
Joe McGinniss
Bill McKibben
John McPhee
Ved Mehta
Farley Mowat
Susan Orlean
Nathaniel Philbrick
George Plimpton
Michael Pollan
Ron Powers
Beth Powning
Richard Preston
Ruth Reichl
Mary Roach
Ann Rule
Carl Sagan
David Sedaris
Tim Severin
Dava Sobel
Art Spiegelman
Robert Sullivan
Gay Talese
Deborah Tannen
Paul Theroux
Hunter S. Thompson
Henry Thoreau
Calvin Trillin
Barbara Tuchman
Sarah Vowell
Andrew Weil
Cornel West
Simon Winchester
Tom Wolfe
Tobias Wolff
Bob Woodward
Genre Index
Author/Title Index