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Category: Author Visits
Plattsburgh author writes Dr. Fauci’s biography as a bedtime story
While many of us were staying indoors and social distancing last year, author Kate Messner of Plattsburgh wrote another book as a lockdown activity. This book takes one of the most prominent faces in the struggle against COVID-19, and makes his life story relatable to very young readers. Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn…
Jean Arthur’s Biographer: Examining a very private life
Biographer John Oller of New York City faced a difficult task when writing a book about Hollywood actress Jean Arthur. The star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Shane kept her personal information, including the city in which she was born, very private all of her life. Through careful research and conversations with people who knew the actress…
Scaring up history
It’s the time of year for bone-chilling tales, and a Vermont native has plenty of them. Not only does author Thea Lewis scare up the spirits during her haunted tours around Burlington, she’s also written several books about eerie events in Vermont and northern New York. “Queen City Ghostwalk,” created by Thea Lewis, was chosen…
AUTHOR RUSSELL BANKS HAS A MINI-SERIES IN THE WORKS
Author Russell Banks, who is no stranger to seeing his novels get the Hollywood treatment (The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction), is anticipating another adaptation of one of his books. As the Keene, New York resident reflects on the 20th anniversary of his book Cloudsplitter, a fictionalized text about the abolitionist John Brown and his family,…
Author Kate Messner’s Time-traveling Dog Makes Waves
Plattsburgh author Kate Messner says she will change a novel based on early reader feedback of her drafts, if she thinks it will improve a book. This certainly happened after a New Orleans man told the children’s book writer that he wanted much more help from her fictional time-traveling dog in the rescue efforts from…
What makes a being “human?”
Author Bethany Morrow discusses issues of humanity with producer Paul Larson, as they talk about her book MEM, a work of speculative fiction. It is set in the art deco world of Montreal in the 1920s, but a different version of the ’20s, where memories sometimes get housed in specially created living beings, when those…
Book examines Adirondack lives during the Civil War
Author Bio Glenn Pearsall’s research on historic topics has appeared in many national newspapers, including several mentions in the New York Times. His articles also regularly appear in the Adirondack Almanac and the New York State History Blog. In 2000 Glenn and his wife Carol created and funded a private foundation “dedicated to improving the life of year-round residents of…
Glenn Pearsall Discusses New Book with Paul Larson
Author Bio Glenn Pearsall’s research on historic topics has appeared in many national newspapers, including several mentions in the New York Times. His articles also regularly appear in the Adirondack Almanac and the New York State History Blog. In 2000 Glenn and his wife Carol created and funded a private foundation “dedicated to improving the life of year-round residents of…
Sara J. Henry releases her novel, “A Cold and Lonely Place.”
Author Sara J. Henry discusses her second novel, “A Cold and Lonely Place,” with Paul Larson. “Author Visits” is supported by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, dedicated to improving the quality of life for year-round residents of the Adirondack Park.
Kate Messner – The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
Plattsburgh, New York author and educator Kate Messner discusses works of fiction for young people, including her book “The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.” Producer Paul Larson originally conducted this interview for Mountain Lake Journal Extra, a magazine program on Mountain Lake PBS. “Author Visits” is an online series about the inspiration, writing, production, and…
