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• Mona Golabek
• Maria Rosa Menocal
• Tony Perrottet
• Lynn Schooler
• Emma Sweeney
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Debut Nonfiction
Author Roundtable
AuthorsOnTheWeb.com assembled a roundtable discussion featuring
5 up-and-coming nonfiction writers who discuss the writing process,
research practices, publishing/marketing support for debut authors,
and their responses to first-time reviews from readers and critics.
The participants include Mona Golabek, Maria Rosa Menocal, Tony
Perrottet, Lynn Schooler, and Emma Sweeney.
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| Mona Golabek |
Acclaimed Grammy nominated pianist MONA GOLABEK has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New Philharmonica (London), the National Symphony and the Tokyo Philharmonic including performances at the Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and London's Festival Hall, with conductors Zubin Mehta, Andre Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin and David Zinman. The New York Times has written "superior music making" while The Boston Globe and The London Times have called her "enormously talented...a knockout pianist."
Ms. Golabek has been the subject of various PBS television specials, including More than the Music, a concert videotaped at a women's prison and Concerto for Mona, featuring the pianist and Zubin Mehta in the world premiere of William Kraft's Piano Concerto and is the host and creator of the nationally syndicated radio program, The Romantic Hours. "A different breed of radio" writes the Pittsburgh Post. "The Voice of Romance" says the Los Angeles Times. The show is heard on more than 125 stations and on XM Satellite Radio.
A prolific recording artist and producer, the Grammy nominated pianist has recorded the best selling album, Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals," with her sister Renee Golabek-Kaye and the voices of Audrey Hepburn, Ted Danson, Lily Tomlin and Dudley Moore. She recently released the critically acclaimed recording Babar the Elephant and Mother Goose Suite with the New Zealand Symphony and narration by Meryl Streep. Mona Golabek was taught by her mother, Lisa Jura Golabek, a graduate of the London Royal Academy of Music. her father, Michel Golabek, received the Croix de Guerre during the French resistance. Their life story is the subject of a biography, The Children of Willesden Lane, published by Warner Books.
Some of Mona's favorite books or authors are the poets Beaudelaire, Yeats, Rimbaud. My favorite authors are Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky, Bronte, and Hermann Hesse. As you can see, I am a hopeless romantic and sometimes I feel I was born in the wrong time. I am particularly in love with the biography of George Sand by Curtis Cate and any book on the composer Chopin. I wept when I read Les Miserables by Hugo. I read the book at the age of 13...it was given to me by my first boyfriend who was the class genius and nerd. He told me it would enter my heart and he was right.
Mona Golabek's Website
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| Maria Rosa Menocal |
 Born in Cuba and raised in Philadelphia, Maria Rosa Menocal received her Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Bryn Mawr College and at Pennsylvania and then, for the last 16 years, at Yale, where she is now the R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the Whitney Humanities Center. Author of the critically acclaimed Shards of Love , a provocative treatment of the origins of European lyric poetry, Professor Menocal has published widely in the field of medieval literature and culture. Her co-edited volume, The Literature of Al-Andalus in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series, is a recent example of her special interest in the vibrant mixed cultures of Spain. Maria Rosa Menocal is also the mother of two children, and lives mostly in Manhattan, where she cooks and writes, though not always in that order.
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| Tony Perrottet |
 Tony Perrottet has written for The New York Times, Esquire, Outside, Civilization, Islands, and The Sunday Times (London), among other publications. He is Australian and lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.
Tony Perrottet's Website
Random House
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| Lynn Schooler |
 Lynn Schooler is a two-time winner of Alaska magazine's grand prize and winner of the National Wildlife grand prize for wildlife photography. He has lived in Alaska for more than thirty years. The Blue Bear is his first book.
Photo: Jon Pond
HarperCollins
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| Emma Sweeney |
 Emma Sweeney graduated from UC Berkeley in 1980 with a B.A. in English Literature. She is currently a literary agent for Harold Ober Associates. In addition, she occasionally lectures on gardening at local garden centers. Her garden design work has been featured in Country Living and Country Living Gardener magazines. As Always, Jack is her first nongardening publication.
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