by vjbooks | Dec 1, 2008 | Children and YA, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
(marketwatch.com, Nov 20) Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced that the organization will name James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton its 2009 Grand Masters in honor of the Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth next year. Not since 1978 has the organization...
by vjbooks | Nov 5, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(TimesOnline, Nov. 5, Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent) Michael Crichton, the bestselling author behind the fictional world of Jurassic Park, died today at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer that he hid from the public eye. Crichton, author of more than a...