Florencia Mallon wrote several books and articles about the events preceding Chile's 1973 military coup and the subsequent dictatorship of Augusto…

"This is the story of a retired high school Latin teacher who murders her son-in-law."That's what Robert Hellenga wanted on the cover of his latest novel,…

In less than a week, Barrie Jean Borich won two big awards this spring for her latest book, Body Geographic.On May 28, her memoir tied for a gold medal at…

Joseph Gastiger writes prose poems, a hybrid form that reads like fiction but uses poetic imagery. He prefers writing this type for two reasons."I found…

Gary Lawrence is a Rockford native who uses familiar sights and people in his fiction. In Baffled and Other Stories, Lawrence takes us to the "On the…

(Updated May 26)This week, one of our Summer Book Series authors will accept a gold medal for her latest work, a creative memoir. Barrie Jean Borich will…

Imagine your father pulling you out of school to tell you he killed a man. How would you react to this news?Kelly Daniels was nine when his father…

In the 1850s, Henry David Thoreau spent two years at a cabin in the woods near Concord, Mass. The cabin, at Walden Pond, is where he wrote his most famous…

In the late 14th Century, poet Geoffrey Chaucer mined Greek mythology to retell the story of two lovers from ancient Troy. His book, Troilus and Criseyde,…

Who's writing the best literature in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin?That's a question WNIJ's Dan Klefstad tries to answer twice a year. This…