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Page 2 • Cognotes 2010 Midwinter Meeting Preview • BOSTON ALA/ERT Author Forum—From Book to Big Screen Friday, January 15, 4:00 – 5:15 pm Van Lustbader was born, raised and educated in Greenwich Village, New York. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant on’t miss an exciting panel of High School and Columbia College authors who will talk about with a degree in Sociology, proof that their experiences and the pro- from an early age he loved the science cess of seeing their best-selling books of how people react to one another. become movies. Before turning to writing full-time, he taught in the NYC Public School Eric Van Lustbader System, and spent ten years in the rock Van Lustbader is the author music business, where of many bestselling thrillers, he formed his own comincluding the New York Times pany, produced records, bestsellers The Testament and worked for Elektra ReThe Ninja. During his thirtycords and CBS Records, odd year writing career, Van and wrote free-lance. Lustbader has written over thirAlong the way, he bety novels, novellas and shortcame friends with such stories. He has also been chosen stars as John Lennon, by Robert Ludlum’s estate to Elton John, Bryan Fercontinue the Jason Bourne sery, Robert Fripp and ries. His Jason Bourne novels Eric Van Lustbader many others. include The Bourne Legacy and The Bourne Deception. He and his wife Chuck Hogan live in New York City and the South Chuck Hogan is the author of Fork of Long Island. His first Jack Mc- several acclaimed novels, including Clure book, First Daughter, was also a The Standoff and Prince of Thieves. New York Times bestseller. His latest, Prince of Thieves won the 2005 HamLast Snow, comes out from Forge in mett Award and was called one of the February 2010. ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. He is the co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Sponsored Times bestseller The Strain. Prince of by: Thieves will soon be a major motion picture. Chuck Hogan Sponsored by: Tracy Chevalier (photo by Swen Arnstein) before turning to writing full-time. Her second novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. It has sold almost 4 million copies worldwide and was made into a Sponsored film starring Colin by Penguin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. Julie Powell, thrust herself from obscurity (and an uninspiring temp job) to cyber-celebrityhood when, in 2002, she embarked on an ambitious yearlong cooking (and blogging) expedition through all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She detailed the experience in her Julie Powell (photo by 2005 New York Kelly Campbell) Times bestselling memoir, Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in August 2009. Powell has made appearances on national television shows from ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS’s The Early Show to The Martha Sponsored by: Stewart Show and Food Netw o r k ’s I r o n Chef America, and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and more. She is a two-time James Beard Award winner, has been awarded an honorary degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and was the first ever winner of the Overall Lulu Blooker Prize for Books. Her highly anticipated second book, Cleaving, will be published in December, 2009. Tracy Chevalier Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Girl With A Pearl Earring and Burning Bright. Chevalier was born in 1962 and grew up in Washington, DC. She has a BA in English from Oberlin College, Ohio and an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. Chevalier has lived in London for over 20 years, and is married, with one son. She was a reference book editor for several years Julie Powell For girls with style and substance Award winning magazine and creativity journal for girls ages 8 and older 4 Booth 135 Boston r, inte ALA Mid-W free issue Pick up a t! plies las while sup r rls re a d , write, desig l a n, p raw, n, d a nd e e at h ll on t —a e p a g e s o f Ki ki! Gi http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/2010/events.cfm#author http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Chuck-Hogan/23149246 http://www.tchevalier.com/ http://www.ericvanlustbader.com/thriller/content/index.asp http://www.kikimag.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Powell

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