3 Author Facts

Sources of Author Facts

(in MLA format)

Sold.mp3

Sold.doc

1. Has written 3 books: Cut, My Brother's Keeper, Sold . (McCormack)
2. Visited Calcutta and interviewed girls and women for this project. (Rochman)
3. Chose to write in vignette form because it is "inherently a fractured fragmented experience.. and allowed me to deal with the horror in a carefully controlled language." (Rochman)

McCormack, Patricia. Home Page. 17 March 2008 <http://www.pattymccormick.com>.

Rochman, Hazel. "Daughters for sale." Booklist 103.2 (Sept 15, 2006): 54(1). General Reference Center Gold. Gale. Poway High School. 17 Mar. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com>.

girl overboard.doc

darien sorensen final podcast.mp3

1. Her debute novel Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies)won the 2007 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and was a Borders' Original Voices nominee, BookSense pick, and NYPL Book for the Teen Age.
2. with all her books she somehow

Incorporates it with a servivce project for young adults

1. she wrote her first 50-page novella whenshe was eight.

sg.doc

Final Podcast Marleni.mp3

"Frances Hodgson Burnett." Children's Literature, Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century. December 1996.Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. 26 March 2008

< http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/kidlit/kidlit/kidlit3.html>

Merriman, C.D. "Frances Hodgson Burnett." The Literature Network . 2007.Jalic Inc. 26 March 2008<http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/>

Final Podcast Sam.mp3

Podcast for The Client.doc

1. Worked originally for a Law Firm in Mississippi, 60-70 hours a week.
2. Served in the House of Representatives for the State from 1983 to 1990, where he switched gears and began writing full time.
3. Releasing one book every year since 1987, John Grisham has had each book published become a New York Times bestseller.

Grisham, John. Home Page. 21 March 2008. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/grisham/main.php

In World books Hurricanes.doc

 yannick morgan.mp31

. Kobasa holds an MSLS in academic librarianship from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven.

2. He joined World Book in 1988 as a product developer and later became executive director of product development and research services.

3. He was later promoted to general manager and assistant editor-in-chief.

Kobasa, Paul. World Book names Librarian Paul Kobasa as editor and chief. March 14 2005. http://www.libraryjournal.com/artical/CA510397.html

podcast.doc

john final podcast.aup.bak.mp3

1. J.K Rowling began writing when she was 6 years old.

2. She started the Harry Potter series in the year 1990, when, she says, "the idea just popped into my head."

3. Ms. Rowling has also been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

bekka-breakfastofchampions.doc

bekka final podcast.mp3

1. Has written many books, including his most famous work Slaughterhouse-Five, and other notable works such as Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan.

2. He witnessed the bombings in Dresdan firsthand during WWII as a PoW, and included these experiences in Slaughterhouse-Five.

3. Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11, 2007, in Manhattan, New York, after suffering irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall at his home (Kurt).

Blue Bloods.doc

tayla final.mp3

1.She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour.

2.Melissa grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart.

3.She majored in art history and English at Columbia University (and minored in nightclubs and shopping!).

 "melissa De La Cruz." 2008.6 .May .2008

<http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php/info/about/>.

Naked Lunch book talk.doc

boottalkfinaltrevoredited.mp3 

1. Burroughs graduated in English Literature from Harvard University in 1936.

2. Burroughs traveled in Europe, where he studied medicine in Venice for a year.

3. With his common law wife, Burroughs moved to Texas, where he grew cotton and marijuana crops. He then moved to Mexico City to avoid legal problems.

Book Talk for Speak by yasmin.doc

Yasmin Final, Speak.mp3

1.She won the National Book Award for "Speak"

2.She attened Georgetown University

3.Her novel Prom was a New York Time best seller She has recently released a new novel, Twisted, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller List for five weeks

 Steven Henderson.doc

 Harry Potter.mp3

1 .J.K Rowling has sold over 400 million copies of Harry Potter books.

2. Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at $1.07 billion, ranking her the 13th richest women in Britain.

3. Forbes ranked Rowling as the 48th most powerful celebrity of 2007.

Brave New World.doc

Brave New World.mp3 

1. Huxley was denied U.S. citizenship (though he lived in the States for thirty years) because he refused to play any part in the military defense of the United States.

2. George Orwell, author of the books 1984 and Animal Farm, was one of Huxley’s students.

3. Huxley is so influential he’s even managed to penetrate pop culture. The Beatles used a picture of him on the cover of their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Booktalk -f451.doc

Booktalk final (F451).mp3

1. Published more than five hundred works.

2.Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2004.

3. He owns numerous cats.

Weller, Sam "About Ray Bradbury"

3/21/2008<http://www.raybradbury.com/bio.html>