Select Editions--Volume 2 2005

Barbara Ruth Greenberg was born on August 9, 1945, in Newton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, where she raised in a family of lawyers. Her mother died of breast cancer, when she was eight, it was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. She took piano lessons and flute lessons. She took ballroom dancing lessons. She went to summer camp through her fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of her stories), then spent her sixteenth summer learning to...

Fannie Flagg is the author of the beloved novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, a heartwarming story that became a hit movie. She's known for her charming Southern settings and characters you'll feel like you know.

Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thriller and historical fiction. Born in Cardiff in 1949, he worked as a newspaper reporter and then in publishing before his breakthrough as a novelist with the spy thriller Eye of the Needle (1978). He is best known for the Kingsbridge series, which began with The Pillars of the Earth (1989), and for the Century Trilogy (Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, Edge of Eternity). His books have sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide in more than 80 countries and...

Laura E. Kelly is known for her contributions to the "Select Editions" series, appearing in multiple volumes from 2002 to 2007. Her work is featured in "Select Editions--Volume 2 2004," "Select Editions--Volume 1 2007," and other editions. Kelly's writing is a consistent presence in this popular collection.

Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as theatrical and television movies.