




Lenore's latest novel Becky,
follows the lives of Mark Twain's
Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn -- as adults. It's now
available in both HARDCOVER and TRADE PAPERBACK from St. Martin's
Press. In Becky, Tom Sawyer's
first love finally gets to tell her
side of the story. It opens in
1910, and Mark Twain -- best known to Becky as Sammy Clemens of
Hannibal -- has suddenly passed away, just when he said he would, "gone
with
Halley's comet." Now she's going to tell the story of Tom and Huck and
Sid and her as it really
happened, and put back the parts Twain left out of his novel . . . such
as how Injun
Joe really died, and what actually happened when she and Tom were
trapped in the
cave, and why she finally rejected Tom and came to marry his cousin
Sid. But can she ever really forget the sweet-talking, maddening,
irresponsible Tom Sawyer? She plans to try. . . .
The novel before that was Ordinary Springs (PenguinPutnam, January 2005) set in Florida in the fifties and sixties. Pubisher's Weekly called it "Gritty, fierce . . . a fine vintage portrait of a tough girl whom life teaches to be tougher." Dory Gamble's mother left when she was a baby, so she was raised by her father, Owen, and grew up working alongside him in their hardware store in Ordinary Springs. She always thought the two of them would be inseparable. But when she's fifteen, Owen falls for their attractive new neighbor, whose husband is too sick to even come outside. Soon Dory understands how one betrayal can breed and multiply; how willing even good people can be to hurt each other. When she lashes out against everything she once loved, nothing can ever be the same.
Lenore's first young adult novel, The Treasure of
Savage Island, published in September 2005 by Dutton, was
nominated for
several YA book awards. She is now at work on a new
novel, Nevermore,
the story
of the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe, told by his wife and young cousin
Virginia Clemm. Part literary tale, part historical novel, part ghost
story, it will be published by St. Martin's Press in January 2010.
She has also lectured or taught at Florida State University,
George
Mason University, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Eastern
Shore
Community College, the Cape May Institute, The U. S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Eckerd College, Old Dominion University, The Poynter
Institute
in St. Petersburg, Christopher Newport University, and Tidewater
College
in Virginia Beach. She's been featured
on Voice of America and in three segments of the syndicated PBS
television
series "Writer To Writer." She has also been a Visiting Writer at
Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. She lives on the
Eastern Shore of
Virginia
with her husband, novelist David Poyer, and their daughter, Naia.
To arrange for an appearance, please get in touch with Hilary
Rubin Teeman, at St. Martin's Press. She's at (800)
221-7945, ext. 5637.
Or you can write Lenore direct at PO Box 647, Nassawadox, VA 23413-0647.
For Hart's bio, or for more information on each book, see the
links above. To find out more about the low residency MA/MFA in
Creative Writing, visit Wilkes
University.
| (POSTED ON JUNE 16, 2009) June 22, 2009: Reading from forthcoming novel, NEVERMORE, in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Hart will be reading along with other Wilkes MA/MFA Creative Writing faculty, including novelist David Poyer, Norman Mailer, biographer J. Michael Lennon, and poets Christine Gelineau and Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr, at the downtown Barnes & Noble bookstore at 7 South Main Street, on Sunday, June 22, 2009 from 7 to 9 P.M. March 31, 2010: "One Book Bradford" BECKY: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF BECKY THATCHER has been selected as the One Book pick for 2010 in Bradford, PA. Area libraries and bookstores will stock the title so the whole community can read and discuss the novel. The author will appear in Bradford all day on March 31 for a series of events-- public readings and book signings, a luncheon and dinner, a lecture on the writing process at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, and class visits-- all centered on the novel. March 2010 St. Martin's will publish NEVERMORE. |
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