room of own

The study belonging to Charles J. Shields who is at work on a biography of
Kurt Vonnegut. His last book Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
was published by Henry Holt in 2006.

This office belongs to Sandra Grabman who is currently working with
co-author Joel Blumberg on the biography of actor Lloyd Nolan, which
is due to be published by BearManor Media in late 2010.
On the wall above the computer screen are portraits of Grabman's
biography subjects whose life stories have been published by
BearManor Media - actors Albert Salmi, Pat Buttram, Peggy Ann
Garner - and No Retakes! co-author Wright King. On the bottom left is
the image of Grabman's "greatest booster" her father. The audio mixer
and microphone are used to record audio books digitally onto her
computer, which she sends to my publisher. Grabman was in the midst of
doing Albert Salmi's story on audio when the picture was taken.

Stephen H. Grant is the author of Peter Strickland: New London
Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal and is
currently at work on a biography of Henry and Emily Folger,
founders of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Diane Diekman has published two memoirs, A Farm in the
Hidewood and Navy Greenshirt, and one biography, Live Fast,
Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. She is currently writing
Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins, with a
tentative publication date of 2012.

The office of British author Clare Mulley. Her The Woman Who Saved
the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save the
Children was published in 2009 to coincide with the charity's 90th
anniversary; it won the Daily Mail Biographers Club prize. Mulley worked
at Save the Children for five years before moving to another INGO and is
currently a trustee of the British charity Standing Together Against
Domestic Violence. In 2006 she was awarded a distinction for her Social
and Cultural History MA. She lives with her husband and three daughters
in Saffron Walden, England, where she is researching her next book.