We
hope you enjoyed the Fifth Annual Collingswood Book Festival.
See you next year!
Here’s
a look at 2007's authors…
Elizabeth Joy Arnold
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here to see her website.
The
new, best-selling novel, Pieces of My Sister’s Life,
heralds the debut by Elizabeth Joy Arnold. Her poignant
tale, about the broken bonds between twin sisters, was chosen
as Levy Home Entertainment's "Need to Read" selection,
and as Book Reporter's "One To Watch" pick. Bookpage
called the novel "accomplished and stunning, poignant and
riveting," and Publishers Weekly said the novel was "vibrant
and rich with the subtleties and nuances of family life."
Catherine Lloyd Burns
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here to see her website.
Catherine
Lloyd Burns is the author of It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks:
A Memoir of a Mother and Daughter. Also, she wrote
the film, Everything Put Together . As an actress, she
has appeared on numerous television shows including Malcolm
in the Middle , ER, Law and Order, and Al Franken's Lateline.
Films include: The Baxter, Pushing Tin, Michael. She
lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Sam Carchidi with Bill Campbell
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here to see his website.
Sam
Carchidi, author of Bill Campbell: The Voice of Philadelphia
Sports, has been covering high school, collegiate and professional
sports since 1975. He has been a staff writer and South Jersey
sports
columnist at The Inquirer since 1984, writing primarily about
high school
athletes and professional baseball. He has written for several
national
publications, including Baseball America, Baseball Digest,
Athlon
Sports and The Scouting Report, and he was one of
the
Philadelphia Inquirer reporters who contributed to the
book
Worst to First, The Story of the 1993 Phillies. In 2001,
Carchidi
co-authored Miracle in the Making, The Adam Taliaferro Story.
Carchidi, a Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and
Sterling
High School graduate, and his wife JoAnn, and their children,
SaraAnn and
Sammy, reside in Wenonah, N.J.
Sports broadcasting icon Bill Campbell, who broke into the radio
business
while introducing performers like Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman
on the
Atlantic City Steel Pier in 1940, is known as "The Dean"
of the
Philadelphia sports scene. Campbell, inducted into the Basketball
Hall of
Fame in 2005, has been a broadcaster for seven decades. In his
varied
career, Campbell has broadcast some of the most memorable events
in
Philadelphia sports history. Many of those moments are in a CD
that
accompanies the book on Bill's fascinating career. He grew up
in
Philadelphia and now lives in Haddonfield with his wife, Jo. They
celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary earlier in 2007, and
they have a
daughter, Christine, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Pat Croce
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here to see his website.
From his success as
a physical therapist to his leadership of the Philadelphia 76ers,
Pat Croce’s story is one of the most remarkable in sports
history. He is a nationally-renowned motivational speaker,
and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, I
Feel Great and You Will Too!, the motivational tome 110%,
and the business book Lead or Get Off the Pot! He also
authored a book that delves into his passion for pirates - Pirate
Soul: A Swashbuckling Journey through the Golden Age of Pirates. For
more information, join him at www.piratesoul.com.
Lauren Grodstein
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here to see her website.
Lauren Grodstein is the author of the short story collection The
Best of Animals, and the novel Reproduction Is The Flaw
Of Love, which was published in five languages. Her
essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in various publications,
including Virgin Fiction 2, The Modern Jewish Girl’s
Guide to Guilt, and The Ontario Review. A
graduate of Columbia’s MFA program, Lauren teaches creative
writing at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn.
Robert S. Lyons
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here to see his website.
For more than thirty years, Robert S. Lyons has covered professional
and college sports for the Associated Press, and has contributed
to numerous national publications. The former director of the
La Salle University News Bureau, editor of the university's alumni
magazine, and an instructor of journalism at La Salle, he is now
president of RSL Communications. He is the author of Palestra
Pandemonium: A History of the Big 5, and co-author of The
Eagles Encyclopedia.
Phil Martelli
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here to see his website.
In his new book, Don’t Call Me Coach: A Lesson Plan
for Life, Phil Martelli compresses his three decades of experience
into a ten–point lesson plan that will benefit anyone, regardless
of the challenges. One of America’s most colorful,
outspoken, and successful coaches, he has been head men’s
basketball coach at Philadelphia’s Saint Joseph’s
University since 1995. Acclaimed as Division I consensus coach
of the year after his team’s 2003-04 season, Martelli is
the recipient of two honorary doctorates. He lives with
his wife, Judy, in Media, PA.
Susan O'Doherty
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here to see her website.
In her new book, Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A
Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity, clinical psychologist
Susan O’Doherty, PhD, draws on
cases from her practice, as well as examples from her own life,
to help women successfully navigate avenues of creativity and
overcome the hang-ups. Her advice column for writers, "The
Doctor is In," appears each Friday on MJ Rose's blog,
“Buzz, Balls, and Hype.” Her stories,
essays, and poems have appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine,
Northwest Review, Apalachee Review, Eclectica, Reflection’s
Edge, VerbSap, Literary Mama, Word Riot, Style & Sense, Phoebe,
and the anthologies About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on
Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope (Penguin, 2007), It’s
a Boy! (Seal Press, 2005), The Best of Carve, Volume
VI, and Familiar (The People's Press, 2005). New
stories will appear in Hospital Drive, Mama Ph.D., and
in Sex for America, edited by Stephen Elliott. Her story
“Passing” was chosen as the New York story
for Ballyhoo Stories’ ongoing “Fifty
States Project.” It will be distributed in chapbook
form at bookstores throughout New York State. She lives
in Brooklyn with her family.
Sal Paolantonio
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here to see his website.
From 1985 to 1995, Sal Paolantonio was a sportswriter and national
political correspondent at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 1993, he wrote Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City
America, which was published in a tenth anniversary edition
in 2003. It is the all-time No. 1 bestseller in the Philadelphia
area. Since 1995, he has been a national correspondent for
ESPN, covering the NFL for SportsCenter, Sunday NFL Countdown
and ESPN.com. His new book, The Paolantonio Report:
The Most Overrated and Underrated Teams, Players, Coaches, and
Moments in NFL History, is due in October 2007.
Gary Earl Ross
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here to see his website.
Gary Earl Ross is a writing professor at the
University at Buffalo and the
author of more than 170 published short stories, articles, poems,
and
public radio essays. He has won awards for fiction, playwriting,
and
journalism. His books include The Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville,
and Dots.
His staged plays include Sleepwalker, Picture Perfect, The
Best Woman, and
Matter of Intent, winner of the 2005 Edgar Award from
the Mystery Writers
of America.
Jeff Sypeck
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here to see his website.
Jeff Sypeck teaches medieval
literature at the University of Maryland University College. He
is the author of Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and
the Empires of A.D. 800, which Booklist dubbed "an
inspired, instantly readable work of popular history." His
articles about books, history, and travel have appeared in The
Washington Post, Salon, and other publications; he is also
the author of a biography of Charlemagne for middle-school students.
A New Jersey native, he now lives in Washington, D.C.
Katharine Weber
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here to see her website.
Katharine Weber is the author of four novels, Triangle, The
Little Women, The Music Lesson, and Objects in Mirror
Are Closer Than They Appear. Three of her novels
have been New York Times Notable Books. Her second novel, The
Music Lesson, has been optioned for the screen. The
protagonist of Triangle is the last living survivor of
the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, when nearly 150 garment
workers, mostly immigrant women, perished. A finalist for
both the Paterson Fiction Prize and the John Gardner Fiction Book
Award, Triangle was named Best Book of the Year by The
Chicago Tribune and by National Public Radio.
Marcie
Aboff
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here to see her website.
Marcie is the author of picture books, beginning readers and chapter
books for both the trade and educational market. Her new guided
reading books are Jenna, Mail Call, Chip to the Rescue
and Missing Sneakers. She describes them as character-building
stories with a little heart, a little humor, and some twists and
turns along the way.
Sandy
Asher
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here to see her website.
Sandy Asher’s
writing career began with the publication of stories, poems, and
articles in children's magazines, including Highlights for
Children, Humpty Dumpty's Magazine, and Weekly Reader.
Her first book for young readers, Summer Begins, was
published in 1980. Since then, she’s written 24 more, including
her latest picture book, Too Many Frogs! and What
a Party!
Danny
and Kim Adlerman (aka Kin Eagle)
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here to see their website.
Kin Eagle is really the team of Kim and Danny Adlerman.
Their books include Hey, Diddle Diddle, It’s Raining,
It’s Pouring, Africa Calling, and How Much Wood Could A
Woodchuck Chuck? - a wonderful read-aloud or sing-along book
for parents and children to share together. Their newest
book, Oh No, Domino!, due in Autumn 2007, features words
and illustrations by Kim and a new song on CD by Danny.
And Listen UP! is a new full length CD by Danny Adlerman
and Friends.
Robert
Filocco
Robert lives in Metuchen NJ with wife Jennifer and daughter Emily.
He is a
nature lover with an interest in creating a series of children's
books
that explore the relationship between man and nature and related
themes of
friendship and love.
Dan
Gutman
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here to see his website.
Dan is the author of
many children's books, mostly about sports, including his newest,
Getting Air. It’s a story about skateboarders
who survive a plane crash and have to use their survival skills
in the wilderness. Some of his other books are Satch
& Me, Casey Back at Bat, The Million Dollar Putt, and
Jackie Robinson and the Big Game. When he is not
writing books, Dan is very often visiting a school. He lives
in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Nina, and their children,
Sam and Emma.
Carole
Hamburger
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here to see her website.
Carole Hamburger (Beitchman) has taught for thirty-six years in
Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband, Carl. She believes
that children's stories should be entertaining, enlightening and
educational. The Star Pupil is her first book,
and she is happy to announce that Mama and Papa Dot will be expanding
their family. Watch for the next edition by the end of this
year! Carole is currently signing her book at Barnes
and Noble and independent bookstores from coast to coast.
Bobbie Hinman
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here to see her website.
With a B.S. degree in Elementary Education and the experience
of reading to her 10 grandchildren, Bobbie Hinman is right at
home with the world of children’s literature. The Knot
Fairy is the first in her series of whimsical fairy books.
The story helps explain one of the mysteries of life - tangled
hair.
Dar Hosta
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here to see her website.
I Love The Night, author/artist Dar Hosta’s gentle
narrative dedicated to nocturnal animals, is the winner of the
2004 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family, and was followed
up by I Love The Alphabet, Mavis and Her Marvelous Mooncakes,
and If I Were A Tree, released in May 2007.
Dar grew up in Columbia, Missouri. As the daughter of an
artist, her childhood was one in which creativity was happening
all the time. Today, she lives with her husband, her two
sons, and two big dogs in a little house on a sunny hillside.
Catherine Murdock
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here to see her website.
A big fan of family farms (she grew up on a tiny farm in Connecticut),
Catherine is the author of Dairy Queen and The Off
Season. She attended Bryn Mawr College and received
a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a self-described "foodie" who, when not writing
Dairy Queen, spent much of the past few years renovating
an elderly kitchen. She lives in suburban Pennsylvania with her
husband, James, two children, and three cats. She is the sister
of the author Elizabeth Gilbert.
Nana Star
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here to see their website.
The Nana Star book character comes to life when Nana Star appears
LIVE! Nana Star and Friends have enthralled hundreds of children
and adults alike as they spend quality time reading, talking,
and entertaining. The writers of Nana Star are Sisters Elizabeth
Sills and Elena Patrice. Also, they are the creators of
eeMOMS.com (pronounced “double e moms”), the web’s
latest parenting site. They host the site’s signature vlog
offering visitors lifestyle tips such as choosing the right kid’s
toys, healthy cooking, and being a mom.
Javaka
Steptoe
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here to see his website.
Javaka Steptoe is an eclectic young artist, designer, and illustrator.
His debut work, In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans
Celebrating Fathers, earned him the Coretta Scott King Illustrator
Award, a nomination for Outstanding Children’s Literature
Work at the 1998 NAACP Image Awards, and many other honors. His
most recent works, Do You Know What I’ll Do authored
by Charlotte Zolotow and A Pocketful of Poems authored
by Nikki Grimes, received starred reviews from both Publishers
Weekly and the ALA Booklist. Once a model and inspiration for
his late father, award winning author/illustrator John Steptoe,
Javaka Steptoe has established himself as an outstanding illustrator
in his own right.
Two
of A Kind
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here to see their website.
Two of A Kind delights audiences of all ages with their music,
good humor and audience participation. This award-winning, nationally
touring, husband-wife duo specializes in interactive musical programs
for children and families. David and Jenny Heitler-Klevans have
been singing together since 1987. Their beautiful harmonies accompanied
by David's powerful, rhythmic guitar playing and Jenny's multi-ethnic
percussion instruments create magic on stage.
Sandra
Warren
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here to see her website.
Sandra Warren
is a freelance writer, speaker, publisher and educational consultant.
She is the former editor of the National Association for Gifted
Children Parent-Community Newsletter. Her books include Enhancing
Creativity Through Open-ended/Missing Parts Stories and How
To Publish Those Great Classroom Ideas. For students, her
books include Arlie the Alligator, If I Were a Table, If I
Were a Road, and The Great Bridge Lowering.
Ferida
Wolff
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here to see her website.
Ferida Wolff
is the author of many different kinds of books. Her newest
book for young people, Is A Worry Worrying You?, addresses
common childhood worries - a bully, a first day at school, a monster
under the bed - and a host of not-so-common worries with a humorous
use of creative problem-solving that helps children deal with
a universal issue in a new way. Other books include A
Year for Kiko, Watch Out for Bears!, A Weed Is a Seed, and Pink
Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book.
Ferida lives in Cherry Hill, NJ.
