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Glen Ellyn author examines the world of the real-life Alice

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Jan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - In her first historical novel, Glen Ellyn author Melanie Benjamin takes readers into the world of the young girl who inspired author Lewis Carroll's classic tale, "Alice...
Dunne saves his last barbs for the rich

Dec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - You didn't think the grave could possibly silence one of the most famous chroniclers of the rich and famous, did you? Dominick Dunne, the author, television personality ...
Author appearances

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Dec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - • Meet New York Times best-selling author Tami Hoag as she reads from and signs copies of her latest thriller, "Deeper Than the Dead," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, at Bo...
'The Cracked Ceiling' examines women in politics

Associated Press
Dec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - If you thought the 2008 election was a triumph in the cause of getting a woman closer to the White House, political reporter Anne E. Kornblut begs to differ. In her retr...
Fossil hunter is subject of Chevalier's new novel

Associated Press
Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Tracy Chevalier sits in the Victorian grandeur of London's Museum of Natural History next to the skeletal remains of a giant eye, the shape and size of a pinea...
'Becoming Jane Eyre' shows spirit's triumph

Associated Press
Dec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Charlotte Bronte was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte...
'Friendly Fire' author Bryan dies in Conn. at 73

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - HARTFORD, Conn. -- C.D.B. Bryan, whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusioned Americans, has died...
Critic says to 'trust your eye' on architecture

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Not long after completing his iconoclastic Glass House in 1949, architect Philip Johnson traded barbs as revealing as the see-through walls. "Very nice, but I couldn't l...
SNCC chronicle is deft history of era

Associated Press
Dec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Even after nearly 50 years, the names bear repeating: Franklin McCain, David Richmond, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeil. They were freshmen at North Carolina A&T on Feb. 1,...
'Nanny Diaries' authors return with new Nanny tale

Associated Press
Dec 15, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- When we last saw Nanny, she was screaming into a spy camera hidden in a teddy bear. The put-upon heroine of 2002's "The Nanny Diaries" had unleashed a stern ...

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