William Knowlton Zinsser (October 7, 1922 – May 12, 2015) was an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic and editorial writer. He was a longtime contributor to leading magazines. Zinsser …
The Extended Mind explores how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains–in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships. A growing body of research indicates that a host of “extra-neural” resources–the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around …
Historian Yuval Noah Harari’s narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution
American children’s book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd
Children’s novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been called “a milestone in children’s literature” and a “classic”. In the U.S. it ranked number 12 in The 50 Best Books for Kids and number 17 in The Top 100 Children’s Novels on two lists generated in 2012.It was followed by two sequels or “companion books”, The Long Secret and Sport .
D. J. Waldie’s account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California’s largest planned suburb.
Children’s novel about a half-Cherokee boy who is stolen away from his family by the US Government.
Novel that follows the lives of several Marines serving in the Vietnam War
2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by by Geraldine Brooks that retells Alcott’s Little Women.
Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On Writer’s Block: “Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances– by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no …
