After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a centuryThe Irish writer Edna O’Brien, who explored the complications and contradictions of women’s lives in a literary career lasting more than half a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-07-28 16:59:31 UTC ]
A onetime veterinarian, he became a regular on NPR with his comical stories and poems of rural life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-26 02:24:49 UTC ]
The recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, whose poetry and prose meditated on rural life and mortality, died in his home in Wilmot, N.H., on June 23. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hyde Park Editions is launching a new series of children’s books, The Hyde Park Squirrels, written by its m.d. Nick Croydon and illustrated by Petra Brown. The books are about two squirrels: Luke and Holly Bushytail. In the first book, Luke Goes to London, Luke leaves his rural life to go to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]