Authors

Khaled Hosseini stormed the best-seller lists with his debut novel, “The Kite Runner,” in 2003, following it up with the even more popular “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in 2007. Both set in the author's native country of Afghanistan,...

When I started reading Anchee Min's latest memoir, "The Cooked Seed," I presumed there would be many commonalities between her life journey in America and mine. We both emigrated from Shanghai — Min came over to the United States as a student in...

As a pediatric heart surgeon, Hisashi Nikaidoh has experienced his fair share of loss. But his curiosity was piqued when he met a woman at the Children's Medical Center in Dallas -- where he worked before coming to Tulsa's Saint Francis Hospital --...

On the surface, the plot of Merle Temple's novel, "A Ghostly Shade of Pale," may seem like something from an action movie, complete with mobsters and drug busts gone awry. But Temple's inspiration did not come from any "Lethal Weapon" movie. It came...

He's sort of a rolling stone is David Peters. Wherever he lays his hat -- to paraphrase The Temptations' 1972 song -- is his home. The 50-year-old homeless man rolled into Chattanooga earlier this week on a bike he earned through the Pedal to...

TO SOME READERS, the Op-Ed page is a bit mysterious. I'll be at a cocktail party, or in the bleachers at a Little League game, and the guy next to me will begin asking questions about just what it is we're trying to do, and how we get it done. Who are...

Since introducing Detective Inspector Jack Caffery 14 years ago in "Birdman," Mo Hayder has written some of the grisliest crime fiction in recent memory. Caffery's cases in London and, later, in Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Team, have included...

The Cromwell Belden Public Library will present an author talk and book signing featuring Holly Weiss, author of "Crestmont," on Wednesday Mary 22, at 6:30 p.m. (Note: this program was postponed from its original date of March 7 due to bad weather.)...

May 17 (Reuters) - Ever wondered what went through author J.K. Rowling's mind when she wrote the first "Harry Potter" novel? Fans of books about the boy wizard will have a chance to bid on a unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's...

This story starts at a point in time that most observers predicted it would end. The year was 2002. The Internet party was long over. Pets.com and other high-flying digital darlings were defunct. It was the dark days for the few survivors of the dot-com...

(Reuters) - Ever wondered what went through author J.K. Rowling's mind when she wrote the first "Harry Potter" novel? Fans of books about the boy wizard will have a chance to bid on a unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,"...

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