Anthology Readings: The Empty Nest, The Other Woman, Dangerous Liaisons, and Bad Girls with authors Eric Brandt, Jane Ganahl, Eddie Muller, Karen Stabiner, Ellen Sussman, Lolly Winston and Victoria Zackheim.
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Bio
Eric Brandt
Eric Brandt is Senior Editor at Harper San Francisco, the religion and spirituality division of HarperCollins Publishers. Having worked for a variety of publishers in New York and San Francisco, he has been a publishing professional for over fifteen years.
Jane Ganahl
Jane Ganahl is the editor of the anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age, and author of Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife, a novelized memoir based on her experiences writing the popular Single Minded column for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller is a writer based out of San Francisco. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, he is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre.
Karen Stabiner
Karen Stabiner's anthology, The Empty Nest, is one of three books she has written about the relationship between parents and their adolescent children, following the memoir My Girl: Adventures With A Teen In Training, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award, and All Girls: Single-Sex Education And Why It Matters. Her landmark book about breast cancer, The New York Times Notable Book, To Dance With The Devil, is a provocative analysis of efforts to cure breast cancer.
Ellen Sussman
Ellen Sussman's anthology, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, was published by W.W. Norton in July, 2007. She is the author of the novel, On a Night Like This, (Warner Books, 2004) which became a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and has been translated into six languages.
Ellen teaches private classes in the San Francisco Bay area.
Lolly Winston
Lolly Winston is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel Good Grief. Her work has appeared in Redbook, Glamour, Family Circle, The San Jose Mercury News, The Sun, and many other publications. Happiness Sold Separately is her second novel.
Victoria Zackheim
Victoria Zackheim is author of The Bone Weaver and editor of anthologies The Other Woman and For Keeps. She is developer and writer of the documentary film, Saving Our Children: Frances Kelsey and the Story of Thalidomide (2008).
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