Dame Maggie Salisbury

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the characters of Fair and Tender Ladies Thursday, April 29, 2010.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Ivy Rowe

Dame Maggie Salisbury changed the title of Archie and Amelie Thursday, April 15, 2010.

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the series & lists of The Fourth Bear Tuesday, February 16, 2010.

• Removed this book in the series: Nursery Crimes (Primary series) ()

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the summary of T. Coraghessan Boyle Friday, May 9, 2008.

• A faithful chronicler of Baby Boomer angst in his fiction, and one of the greatest writers to come out of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in the early '70s, T. C. Boyle is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in New York but a Californian for the past few decades, Boyle may very well be the most popular black humorist in the U. S. since Flannery O'Connor. Boyle has written 11 novels – his first was Water Music in 1982 – and eight short story collections. While his novels have won many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner award for World's End in 1987, his short stories are even more celebrated than his novels. Wikipedia calls him "one of America's most accomplished short story writers."   Boyle himself greatly admires the short fiction of John Cheever.
  
  The awkward, hilarious interplay of man and nature is one of Boyle's favorite themes, and he possesses an uncanny knack for making the reader feel for and relate to any of his characters--heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses.  A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature.  However, Boyle is very much the literary heir of great American social commentators of the 19th century, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain.
  

  "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."

  -Barbara Kingsolver
   
  Boyle on "The Writing Life":
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301579.html
  
  and "This Monkey, My Back" (essay on his life as a writer)
  http://www.tcboyle.com/page2.html?4
  
  
  Bibliography of Novels:
  
  1981  Water Music
  1984  Budding Prospects
  1987  World's End
  1990  East is East
  1993  The Road to Wellville
  1995  The Tortilla Curtain
  1998  Riven Rock
  2000  A Friend of the Earth
  2003  Drop City
  2004  The Inner Circle
  2006  Talk Talk
  
  Bibilography of Short Story Collections:
  
  1979  Descent of Man
  1985  Greasy Lake and Other Stories
  1989  If the River Was Whiskey
  1994  Without a Hero
  1998  T. C. Boyle Stories
  2001  After the Plague
  2005  Tooth and Claw
   

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the summary of T. Coraghessan Boyle Friday, May 9, 2008.

• A faithful chronicler of Baby Boomer angst in his fiction, and one of the greatest writers to come out of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in the early '70s, T. C. Boyle is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in New York but a Californian for the past few decades, Boyle may very well be the most popular black humorist in the U. S. since Flannery O'Connor. Boyle has written 11 novels – his first was Water Music in 1982 – and eight short story collections. While his novels have won many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner award for World's End in 1987, his short stories are even more celebrated than his novels. Wikipedia calls him "one of America's most accomplished short story writers."   Boyle himself greatly admires the short fiction of John Cheever.
  
  The awkward, hilarious interplay of man and nature is one of Boyle's favorite themes, and he possesses an uncanny knack for making the reader feel for and relate to any of his characters--heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses.  A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature.  However, Boyle is very much the literary heir of great American social commentators of the 19th century, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain.
  

  "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."

  -Barbara Kingsolver
   
  Boyle on "The Writing Life":
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301579.html
  
  Bibliography of Novels:
  
  1981  Water Music
  1984  Budding Prospects
  1987  World's End
  1990  East is East
  1993  The Road to Wellville
  1995  The Tortilla Curtain
  1998  Riven Rock
  2000  A Friend of the Earth
  2003  Drop City
  2004  The Inner Circle
  2006  Talk Talk
  
  Bibilography of Short Story Collections:
  
  1979  Descent of Man
  1985  Greasy Lake and Other Stories
  1989  If the River Was Whiskey
  1994  Without a Hero
  1998  T. C. Boyle Stories
  2001  After the Plague
  2005  Tooth and Claw
   

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the summary of T. Coraghessan Boyle Tuesday, April 15, 2008.

• A faithful chronicler of Baby Boomer angst in his fiction, and one of the greatest writers to come out of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in the early '70s, T. C. Boyle is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in New York but a Californian for the past few decades, Boyle may very well be the most popular black humorist in the U. S. since Flannery O'Connor. Boyle has written 11 novels – his first was Water Music in 1982 – and eight short story collections. While his novels have won many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner award for World's End in 1987, his short stories are even more celebrated than his novels. Wikipedia calls him "one of America's most accomplished short story writers." The awkward, hilarious interplay of man and nature is one of Boyle's favorite themes, and he possesses an uncanny knack for making the reader feel for and relate to any of his characters--heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses.  A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature.  However, Boyle is very much the literary heir of great American social commentators of the 19th century, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain.
  

  "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."

  -Barbara Kingsolver
   
  Boyle on "The Writing Life":
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301579.html

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the summary of T. Coraghessan Boyle Sunday, April 13, 2008.

• A faithful chronicler of Baby Boomer angst in his fiction, and one of the greatest writers to come out of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in the early '70s, T. C. Boyle is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in New York but a Californian for the past few decades, Boyle may very well be the most popular black humorist in the U. S. since Flannery O'Connor. Boyle has written 11 novels – his first was Water Music in 1982 – and eight short story collections. While his novels have won many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner award for World's End in 1987, his short stories are even more celebrated than his novels. Wikipedia calls him "one of America's most accomplished short story writers." The awkward, hilarious interplay of man and nature is one of Boyle's favorite themes, and he possesses an uncanny knack for making the reader feel for and relate to any of his characters--heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses.  A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature.  However, Boyle is very much the literary heir of the American satirists and social commentators of the 19th century:  Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain.
  

  "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."

  -Barbara Kingsolver
   
  Boyle on "The Writing Life":
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301579.html

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the summary of T. Coraghessan Boyle Sunday, April 13, 2008.

• A faithful chronicler of Baby Boomer angst in his fiction, and one of the greatest writers to come out of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in the early '70s, T. C. Boyle is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in New York but a Californian for the past few decades, Boyle may very well be the most popular black humorist in the U. S. since Flannery O'Connor. Boyle has written 11 novels – his first was Water Music in 1982 – and eight short story collections. While his novels have won many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner award for World's End in 1987, his short stories are even more celebrated than his novels. Wikipedia calls him "one of America's most accomplished short story writers." A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature. The awkward, hilarious interplay of man and nature is one of Boyle's favorite themes, and he possesses an uncanny knack for making the reader feel for and relate to any of his characters--heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses.  A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature.  However, Boyle is very much the literary heir of the American satirists and social commentators of the 19th century:  Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain.
  

  "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."

  -Barbara Kingsolver
   
  Boyle on "The Writing Life":
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301579.html

Dame Maggie Salisbury edited the summary of T. Coraghessan Boyle Sunday, April 13, 2008.

• A faithful chronicler of Baby Boomer angst in his fiction, and one of the greatest writers to come out of the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in the early '70s, T. C. Boyle is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in New York but a Californian for the past few decades, Boyle may very well be the most popular black humorist in the U. S. since Flannery O'Connor. Boyle has written 11 novels – his first was Water Music in 1982 – and eight short story collections. While his novels have won many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner award for World's End in 1987, his short stories are even more celebrated than his novels. Wikipedia calls him "one of America's most accomplished short story writers." A little-known fact about Boyle that would surprise fans of his cutting-edge, starkly modern fiction is that he earned his Ph.D. in Victorian literature. The awkward, hilarious interplay of man and nature is one of Boyle's favorite themes, and he possesses an uncanny knack for making the reader feel for and relate to any of his characters--heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses.
  

  "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."

  -Barbara Kingsolver

Dame Maggie Salisbury changed Orlando Cervantes Benavides's author image Sunday, April 13, 2008.