Vee Walker finds her plots among the tangled and often thorny branches of her own family tree. Her genealogical literary journey began with the self-published 1810 Cookbook in 2011 (now sadly out of p…
Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written n…
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Priz…