Pages: 240 📖 Year Published: 1952 🕰️ Days to Complete: 7 Author: Madeline Babcock Smith published this, her first novel, in August of 1952 and unfortunately died in December of the same year at the age of 65. Smith was born in Rochester, Illinois and also lived in Springfield. Smith studied literature at the University of Illinois, married, and moved to Decatur, where she lived the rest of her life. Three words to describe this read: Nostalgic - While I haven’t lived throug

Pages: 343 📖 Year Published: 2003 🕰️ Days to Complete: 20 Author(s): Jean Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow both have extensive experience as journalists. The married couple currently lives in Montreal and both were born in Canada. Both earned a degree in political science from McGill University and both have written for publications such as L’actualite , Saturday Night Magazine , and Report on Business Magazine . Collectively, they have traveled to Mexico, the UK, New Zealand

Pages: 483 📖 Year Published: 1993 🕰️ Days to Complete: 16 Author: Oscar Hiljuelos was an American author of Cuban descent most known for his second novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love . He was born in New York City in 1951 and attended schools in the city throughout his entire education. He worked in advertising for some time before publishing his first novel Our House in the Last World which won the Rome Prize. Hijuelos taught at Hofstra and Duke University and died

Pages: 328 📖 Year Published: 2020 🕰️ Days to Complete: 12 Author: Glennon Doyle is an author, speaker, and activist. She was born in Virginia and earned a degree from James Madison University. She became a teacher after graduation and in 2009, began a blog. Her blog gained popularity and she eventually wrote Carry On, Warrior in 2013. Her next book, Love Warrior, was published in 2016 and Untamed was published in 2020. Doyle now produces a podcast called We Can Do Hard Thin

Author: John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. He studied marine biology at Stanford University but never earned his degree and started working instead. After a few years, he moved to New York City to try to write as a freelancer, but eventually returned to California where he wrote his first widely successful novel, Tortilla Flat . More success came with his following novels and short stories and he won a Nobel Prize in 1962. Steinbeck died in New York City