writers' lives Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/writers-lives/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg writers' lives Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/writers-lives/ 32 32 38398750 The Year of the Horses: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/the-year-of-the-horses-a-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/the-year-of-the-horses-a-memoir/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 04:28:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16888 Courtney Maum’s memoir opens with a scene of a young daughter refusing her mother’s help to put on her socks despite the fact that they’re going to be late for an appointment. Maum is the mother and her frustration, veering into internal rage and the immediate weight of guilt, is so well-written my jaw clenched […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/the-year-of-the-horses-a-memoir/feed/ 0 16888 The House of Hawthorne https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/the-house-of-hawthorne/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/the-house-of-hawthorne/#comments Wed, 06 May 2015 07:36:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3981 Erika Robuck is an author who loves to explore the lives of other authors through her fiction. She continues this tradition in her latest, The House of Hawthorne, by following Sophia Peabody as she is courted by and eventually weds Nathaniel Hawthorne. With her outstanding attention to detail and thorough research Robuck uses Sophia’s perspective […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/the-house-of-hawthorne/feed/ 4 3981 Vanessa and her Sister https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/vanessa-and-her-sister/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/vanessa-and-her-sister/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:28:24 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3607 Virginia Woolf is an icon in the world of literature and much has been written about her life so it is a courageous move on the part of author Priya Parmar to explore not Virginia but her lesser known sister Vanessa, in her new novel Vanessa and Her Sister. The novel begins during the heady […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/vanessa-and-her-sister/feed/ 9 3607 Mrs. Poe https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/mrs-poe/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/mrs-poe/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:05:07 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2145   Mrs. Poe is author Lynn Cullen’s fictional look at the relationship between American poet Frances Osgood and Edgar Allen Poe, told from Osgood’s point of view. The novel opens in Manhattan with Osgood trying to sell some of her poetry, as her portrait painter husband has abandoned her and their two daughters for a wealthy […]

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