The radical novels that Grace Lumpkin wrote in the 1930s, To Make My Bread and A Sign for Cain, represent two of the best examples of literary social realism produced in response to the economic and social turmoil of the Great Depression in the U.S.
Since 1994 Janice Daugharty has published a volume of short fiction, six novels, and numerous short stories and essays.
Ruta Sepetys is an internationally-acclaimed bestselling author of historical fiction published in over 60 countries and 40 languages.
Author best known for her 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees, which has sold over 8 million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages.
She entertained her grandchildren with nursery rhymes. Her son-in-law reportedly published them as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose’s Melodies.
Eugenia Price is known for her best-selling historical fiction
American novelist who used the Civil War (1861-65) as a backdrop for her romantic fiction.
Frances Mayes has achieved wide recognition for two best-selling books about her life in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy and Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy.
American novelist, translator, critic, book reviewer, and librarian
1800s Irish novelist