Memory Lane, America’s most popular new theme park, promises to provide its guests with “golden memories.” Choose any week—from 1950 on—and Memory Lane will recreate it for you in amazing the foods, the clothes, the TV shows, even the schools. You will soon forget about the present and start living in the past. But is that a good idea? Alice hopes Memory Lane will provide a week of personal healing and of family bonding. Instead, Alice and her cousins Patrick and TJ find themselves struggling with a pair of psychotic bullies, and with the pain of young love, and with a shocking family secret that was, perhaps, better left buried in the past. Smart, funny, and frightening, Memory Lane is Edward Bloor’s most powerful and insightful novel to date.
Personal Information: Born October 12, 1950, in Trenton, NJ; son of Edward William and Mary (Cowley) Bloor; married Pamela Dixon (a teacher), August 4, 1984. Father to a daughter and a son. Education: Fordham University, B.A., 1973.
Career: Novelist and editor. English teacher in Florida public high schools, 1983-86; Harcourt Brace School Publishers, Orlando, FL, senior editor, beginning 1986.
* Tangerine, Harcourt Brace (San Diego, CA), 1997. * Crusader, Harcourt Brace (San Diego, CA), 1999. * Story Time, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004. * London Calling, Knopf (New York, NY), 2006. * Taken, Knopf (New York, NY,) 2007.
Media Adaptations: Tangerine audiobook, Recorded Books, 2001. Story Time audiobook, Recorded Books, 2005. London Calling audiobook, Recorded Books, 2006.