Susan Wiggs
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CHRISTOPHER KOCH From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I ... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE WHIT STILLMAN RUSSELL SMITH JOHN IRVING There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filter... SUSAN BARKER CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE CORY DOCTOROW PAULO COELHO ROBERT PINSKY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done... GRACE LIN JIM WEBB ANNE BISHOP JO NESBO All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different. MICHAEL ROBOTHAM I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels.... DAVE PIRNER MARK HADDON ELVIS COSTELLO SALMAN RUSHDIE I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That'... OPHELIA LOVIBOND Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home sinc... WILL HOBBS JUDITH JAMISON I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a wr... ANN PACKER Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company,... ATUL GAWANDE EDITH WHARTON I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me ... KAREN ROBARDS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE JANE GOODALL AMOS OZ I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many ... ELIZABETH STROUT Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is do... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS SUSAN WIGGS This (upcoming) search year is going to be very significant in the decision as to where that goes. I... 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MADHUR BHANDARKAR MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn'... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM SHELBY FOOTE BARBARA KINGSOLVER WILL SELF DAVID BERGEN KENNETH BRANAGH JENNIFER EHLE EDMUND WHITE HENRY JAMES Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawli... ALEXI ZENTNER GARTH NIX The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American commu... JOHN BALDACCI I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, lik... CRISTINA KIRCHNER STORMZY DARREN ARONOFSKY NENEH CHERRY She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are trou... LAURA WHITE PETER SHAFFER JIM HARRISON DAVID BENIOFF VLADIMIR NABOKOV C. JOYBELL C. Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. BARBARA PARK WILLIAM HURT ROBIN HOBB CHANG-RAE LEE One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. I... SAMANTHA HARVEY It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work pub... BENJAMIN PERCY ORHAN PAMUK I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz... RACHEL KUSHNER NICHOLAS SPARKS I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim... IAN WATSON MILAN KUNDERA
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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite... 
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'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the do... 
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