Autobiography
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Biographies About
Acclaimed Authors
More fascinating than fiction, the true stories of award-winning
and best-selling novelists are sure to keep you riveted.
Remembering Roth
- By: James Atlas
- Narrated by: James Atlas
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
Overall
Performance
Story
To most audiences, Philip Roth is a literary icon, author of probing, provocative works like American Pastoral, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Goodbye, Columbus. But to James Atlas, Philip Roth was more than just a writer—he was a friend....
- 5 out of 5 stars
made me think as much as many long books.
- By K D on 03-10-19
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How to write an author bio
You're likely to need an author bio when you submit to an agent, publish a story in a magazine or even receive an award, so it's well worth taking the time to craft a good one. Here are some tips to help you along the way.
What is an author bio?
An author bio is a short and sweet biography that lists your professional accomplishments. It is a multipurpose peice of text that might be used in query letters to agents or publishers or run alongside your name when you have short fiction or poems published. If you are appearing at a live event or show, there's a good chance the organiser will ask for an author bio to both advertise in advance and to introduce you on stage. Your author biography may be the first thing someone sees about you, so make sure it's a good one.
How to write a great author bio
Not all author bios will be the same, there's definitely space for creativity!, but here are some top tips for making sure yours shines.
Write in the third person
Even though you're the one writing this short biography, it's best written in third perso
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The Best Author Biographies To Keep You Turning the Pages
What do we really know about our favorite authors? We come to feel as though we know them through their books, stories, and poems, but often their lives remain tantalizingly out of reach. Some live in the public eye, while others shun the spotlight, but most of the time, writers are overshadowed by their own oeuvres.
Not in these 10 author biographies, however, which shed light on the lives (secret and otherwise) of some of our most beloved authors, from Walt Whitman to Virginia Woolf and far beyond. Containing Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning volumes among its own number, these 10 biographies are must-reads for fans of these fascinating authors – and great writing in general!
Looking for Anne of Green Gables
By Irene Gammel
While people all over the world have been following the exploits of little Anne Shirley – better known as Anne of Green Gables – for over a century, considerably less is known about the writer who created her.
Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up on Prince Edward Isla
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