The Best Ebook Wonder - February 2023

R. J. Palacio

R. J. Palacio Has Been First Born and raised in New York.

She attended the High School of Art and Design and the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in illustration with the hopes of following in the footsteps of her favourite youth author-illustrators, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak, and the D’Aulaires. She was a graphic designer and art director for many years before writing Wonder. We’re All Wonders, which is based conceptually on the topics of her novel, represents the pride of her dream to write and illustrate her own photo book. R.J. is also the author of Auggie & Me: Three Potter Stories and 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne’s Book of Precepts. She lives in Brooklyn, by which she's surrounded by magical water towers, with her husband, his two sons, along with their two dogs, Bear and Beau. Find out more about her in rjpalacio.com or about Twitter in @RJPalacio.

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Gerald Hansen

Photo by Marcin Kaliski

Best-selling author Gerald Hansen was a Navy brat, beginning school in Thailand, graduating high school in Iceland, with Germany, California and also his mother's hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland in between. He lived in London and Berlin, and also attended Dublin City University. An Embarrassment of Riches, the first of this Irish Lottery Series, was an ABNA semifinalist in 2011. He loves music, hot food, travel the globe (yet!) , and wearing Ben Sherman. He lives in New York City.

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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Back in 1990, she won a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she wrote her first book, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was called a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. In 1993, she received a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingrahm Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. Patchett's second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994. Her third book, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.Her next novel, Bel Canto, won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in 2002, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was called the Book Sense Book of the Year. It sold more than a million copies and has been translated into thirty languages. Patchett printed Beauty, Truth &, '' a memoir of her friendship. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year Entertainment Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and by the Chicago Tribune. Truth & Beauty was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She was also the editor of Best American Short Stories 2006. Patchett has written for several publications, including the New York Times magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic,The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Vogue. She lives along with her husband, Karl VanDevender.

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