Do You Know How Tuscany Got Its Name?
They were called the Etruscans, and modern-day Tuscany derives its name from them. Late bloomer Elisabeth Storrs brings them to life in a luminous novel titled “The Wedding Shroud.”
Novelists
Lindsay Edmunds: Interview with the Author of a Mind-Blowing Sci Fi Novel, Cel & Anna
“A guy and a computer both fall in love with a girl. Interesting times ensue.” Author Lindsay Edmunds’ debut novel is classic, mind-stretching speculative fiction, published at age 58.
William Gay: Eulogy for a Luminous Southern Gothic Writer First Published at Age 55
William Gay was the son of a sharecropper. He grew up a blue-collar worker, barely making a living, writing at night. At age 55, after countless rejections, he got published.
Sharon Kay Penman Takes On William Shakespeare
Long before King Richard III was unearthed from a Leicester parking lot, Sharon Kay Penman sought to tell the truth of his life. She ook on propagandist William Shakespeare and acquitted herself more than admirably. But not before a dastardly deed was done…
Raymond Chandler Riffs on the Simple Art of Murder
In which I revisit Chandler’s classic 1944 Atlantic Monthly essay on genre writing.
Eugenia Lovett West: The Brilliant Mystery Author Who Wrote Her First Novel at 56 and Her Second at 84!
A late-blooming writer who published her first novel at 56, but didn’t see her second one in print until age 84!