Ask these Authors during Shakespeare Week
Here's a snapshot of some of the authors taking your questions Shakespeare Week, April 18 - 22.
April 23 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. To mark this momentous anniversary, we're pulling out all the stops for the Bard this week. Find out what's happening each day, and chime in on the activity using #ShakespeareWeek.
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Christopher Moore
Author of Lamb
Christopher Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. Inheriting a humanism from his love of John Steinbeck and a sense of the absurd from Kurt Vonnegut, Moore is a best-selling author with major cult status.
Malorie Blackman
Author of Noughts & Crosses
An award-winning children's author, Malorie Blackman was honoured with an OBE in 2008. Her work has been adapted for TV and stage.
Jasper Fforde
Author of The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde is a novelist living in Wales. He is the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England, whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes, and is cousin of Desmond Fforde, married to author Katie Fforde. His early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on a number of films including Quills, GoldenEye, and Entrapment.
Elizabeth Nunez
Author of Prospero's Daughter
Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of multiple titles, the latest of which is her novel Even in Paradise. Her novels Boundaries and Anna In-Between were New York Times Editors’ Choices. Anna In-Between won the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Ian Doescher
Author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Ian is a Portland native, and lives in Portland with his spouse and two children. He has a B.A. in Music from Yale University,
Nicole Galland
Author of The Mongoliad
Nicole Galland's newest offering, STEPDOG, is her first contemporary story, after five historical novels: The Fool's Tale; I, Iago; Revenge of the Rose; Godiva; and Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade.
Andrew Dickson
Author of Worlds Elsewhere
My new book about Shakespeare’s global influence, Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe, is published in the UK in October 2015 by Bodley Head/Vintage and in the US by Henry Holt.
Elizabeth Fremantle
Author of Queen's Gambit
Elizabeth has a first in English and an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London. She has contributed to various publications including The Sunday Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. She also reviews fiction for The Sunday Express.
Erik Didriksen
Author of Pop Sonnets
Erik Didriksen is a software engineer, musician, sonneteer, and trivia enthusiast. He lives in Astoria, NY.
Michelle Ephraim
Author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred
Michelle Ephraim is Associate Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern drama, and creative writing. Her book Shakespeare Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas co-authored with fellow Shakespeare professor Caroline Bicks. Most recently, she’s written about Shakespeare in North American popular culture and the comic series Kill Shakespeare.
Seth Margolis
Author of Losing Isaiah
Seth is a writer whose most recent novel, THE SEMPER SONNET, will be published on April 19. He is the author of six earlier novels, including LOSING ISAIAH, which was made into a film starring Halle Berry and Jessica Lange.
Deron R. Hicks
Author of Secrets of Shakespeare’s Grave
I had an idea for a mystery novel that I thought my children would enjoy (and that might teach them a little bit about Shakespeare). That idea turned into THE SECRETS OF SHAKESPEARE"S GRAVE -- the first book in a new series entitled the LETTERFORD MYSTERIES.
Anne Fortier
Author of Juliet
Anne Fortier grew up in Denmark, but immigrated to the United States in 2002. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas and co-produced t...
J. Robert Kennedy
Author of The Protocol
J. Robert Kennedy writes the bestselling Special Agent Dylan Kane Thrillers and the Detective Shakespeare Mysteries. Robert spends his time in Ontario, Canada with his family.
Robin Maxwell
Author of Mademoiselle Boleyn
Robin Maxwell began writing novels about the historical figures she had been obsessing about since graduating from Tufts University with a degree in Occupational Therapy. Her first novel, "The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn," now in its 24th printing, won two YA awards and has been translated into fourteen languages.
Andrea Chapin
Author of The Tutor
Andrea Chapin is the author of The Tutor (Riverhead Book/Penguin Random House), a novel that imagines a year in the life of William Shakespeare. Chapin has acted professionally, touring Germany in Edward Albee’s Seascape.
Sally Kilpatrick
Author of The Happy Hour Choir
Sally Kilpatrick's next two novels also take place in the Ellery "universe." Bittersweet Creek, described by Sally as "Shakespeare. . . with cows," released in the fall of 2015. Better Get to Livin, her story of a funeral director and a failed actress, was a 2013 Maggie finalist and will be published in the summer of 2016.
Pamela Mingle
Author of Kissing Shakespeare
Hoghton Tower, the setting of my debut YA novel, KISSING SHAKESPEARE, released in August 2012. In the spring of 2013, KISSING SHAKESPEARE was chosen as the winner of the Middle Grade/Young Adult category of the Colorado Authors' League Awards. And in June, KS won the Colorado Book Award in the Young Adult.
Lois Leveen
Author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser
Award-winning author Lois Leveen dwells in the spaces where literature and history meet. A confirmed book geek, Lois earned degrees in history and literature from Harvard, the University of Southern California, and UCLA, and taught at UCLA and at Reed College. In addition to her novels JULIET'S NURSE and THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER, she has written for The New York Times.
Jacqueline West
Author of The Shadows
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