Good writers don’t happen by chance. Chances are they draw from their favorite books to craft their own. What’s on your shelf? We encourage you to post your shelfie in the comments below and on Instagram. Six of our authors with forthcoming or new releases shared what is on their bookshelves, giving you an inside look at the books they’ve been reading. Check out their shelfies:
A Field Guide to Tracking Mammals in the Northeast
(Countryman Press, July 4, 2017).
Larry Scheckel
(Tumblehome Learning, December 1, 2017)
Ann Marie Ackermann
Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
(Kent University Press, September 1, 2107)
Cathryn J. Prince
American Daredevil (Chicago Review Press, 2016)
Shot from the Sky (US Naval Institute Press, 2016, paperback)
Carolyn Porter
Skyhorse Publishing, June 6, 2017
Chasing Portraits: A Great Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy
Berkley/NAL/Penguin Random House, September 6, 2016
Writing and Listening — an Interview with Brooke Randel
As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant memories: baking crescent roll cookies, playing gin rummy, and watching Baywatch. Until an unexpected phone call when Golda said, out of the blue: “You should write about my life. What happened in the war.” What results is a fascinating memoir—about one woman’s harrowing survival, and another’s struggle to excavate theRead more…