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Anna David, Author -- Hot Girl, Cool Job

Emily McCombs — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sex, Women, Hot Girl, Cool Job And now we present the women who make you actually want to go in to the office. Are you a hot girl with a cool job? Write us so we can appreciate you. What’s your job? Technically, I’m a...

Author Van Jones tapped as green jobs adviser

AP — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:55:13 +0000

Author and activist Van Jones will be a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation in the Obama administration.

Author behind 'Slumdog Millionaire' heads home

AP — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:41 +0000

The diplomat-novelist whose work was the basis of the award-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” is heading home for the Indian premier of the movie.

Chinese man convicted of killing English author

AP — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:28:55 +0000

A Chinese man was convicted Friday of murdering an elderly author and attempting to steal his identity in a trial held partly in secret for reasons of national...

Best-selling "God" author faces plagiarism claim

AP — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:41:58 +0000

Neale Donald Walsch, best-selling author of “Conversations with God,” said Tuesday that he unwittingly passed off another writer’s Christmas anecdote as his own in a recent blog...

US author of anti-Obama book detained in Kenya

AP — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:04:53 +0000

A Kenyan official says the American author of a book critical of Barack Obama has been detained while his immigration status is checked.

Stuart Dybek wins Rea Award for 'originality and influence' in short stories

Swati S — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:35:14 +0000

Stuart Dybek, the famous author, also a winner of this weeks MacArthur ‘genius’ grant has also won the $30,000 Rea Award for ‘originality and influence’ in short stories. The Chicago native, 65 now, is well known for his...

Noted author Madeleine L'Engle Camp is no more

Swati S — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:23:53 +0000

Madeleine L’Engle, the well known author has died at the age of 88. She breathed her last at a nursing home in Litchfield and as per her publicity manager the death was natural. The author has written more then 60 books, which include from...

Author of Anti-Obama Book Questions Official Explanation of 9/11 Attacks

Travis — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:30:07 +0000

Among the follow-up efforts to Jerome R. Corsi’s “Unfit for Command,” which inspired the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on Senator John Kerry in 2004, is “Obama...

Woman, 95, writes her second children's book

AP — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:04:15 +0000

Her latest book won’t end up on any best-seller lists, but this 95-year-old woman is proud just to say she’s been published.Marion Jacobson is a former teacher and guidance counselor in the Wausau School District, and her love of...