http://www.ohioana-authors.org/ 52 radio features celebrating Ohio's rich literary and historical heritage and Ohio's contribution to American culture through the written word. Feeder 1.2.5 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Copyright 2000-2005 - WOSU Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:52:57 -0500 Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:52:57 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/images/authors_logo.gif http://www.ohioana-authors.org/ 144 30 52 radio features celebrating Ohio's rich literary and historical heritage Ohioana Authors Ohioana Authors reflect the multicultural diversity throughout Ohio's history and the unique voices that have made the Ohio experience at once particular and universal. The WOSU Stations, in partnership with the Ohioana Library, and with support from the Ohio Humanities Council and We The People, present 52 radio features celebrating Ohio’s rich literary and historical heritage and Ohio’s contribution to American culture through the written word. Ohio,Authors,WOSU,NPR,820,Poetry,Literature no WOSU Public Broadcasting webmaster@wosu.org no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/johnson/index.php From humble beginnings in Tuskegee, Alabama, to a reading-centric family life in small-town Ohio, Angela Johnson is living her dream. Johnson's deep love for children and her early-life inspiration to write joined forces to steer her career. Giving up her pursuit of a college degree at Kent State University and a career in special education, Johnson turned wholeheartedly to writing and working in childcare in the 1980s. Through a stroke of luck and the help of a fellow writer, Johnson has gone on to publish nearly 40 books for children. Her award-winning work ranges from board books for young readers to gritty young adult novels. Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:52:57 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/johnson.mp3 Ohioana Authors no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/janis/index.php Elsie Janis—child actor, Vaudevillian, stage and film performer, writer, director, songwriter—was born Elsie Jane Bierbower in Columbus, Ohio. Janis's career in the performing arts was long and varied—from her childhood when she began doing imitations of celebrities in Vaudeville, to her starring roles on the stages of New York, London, and Paris, to the battlefield where she entertained troops in France and England during World War I, to Hollywood where she acted, wrote for film, and supervised productions. Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:39:53 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/janis.mp3 Ohioana Authors no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/bromfield/index.php Mansfield native Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. His books created a path to the world of Hollywood — Bromfield's novels were among the first adapted for feature-length sound films. Ohioana Authors Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:26:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/bromfield.mp3 At age 40, Louis Bromfield thought he had everything: fame, wealth, friends, and family. But it wasn't enough. Something was missing from his life... no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/serling/index.php As one of television's most gifted writers, Serling used science fiction to challenge the prejudices he saw in America. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/serling.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/giovanni/index.php Nikki Giovanni began a distinguished career as a poet, teacher, and speaker that has spanned three and a half decades. Gloria Naylor calls her "one of our national treasures." She is one of the most highly regarded'and'controversial, poets alive today. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/giovanni.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/chase/index.php As a young girl, Joan loved to visit her Ohioan relatives on their farms, and this may have led her to base her first and most highly regarded book, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, on an Ohio farm. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/chase.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/anderson/index.php Sherwood Anderson was a man who demonstrated all sides of the American dream: a working boy, a businessman, and a worldly artist in the same lifetime. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/anderson.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/chesnutt/index.php Sylvia Lyons Render points out in her introduction to "The Short Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt," because of his fair complexion, Chesnutt could have "passed" for white; instead "he chose to remain identified as an Afro-American and sought to remove rather than to avoid various forms of discrimination." Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/chesnutt.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/harper/index.php Karen Harper is the acclaimed author most noted for her historical mystery novels, with a young Queen Elizabeth I as their central character. But before she reached this genre, she was a high school English teacher in Columbus, Ohio. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/harper.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/beecher-stowe/index.php Speak the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe and one's thoughts immediately go to Uncle Tom's Cabin'one of the few works by a nineteenth-century American woman writer still read and taught in American universities today. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/underground_rr.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/hagedorn/index.php Ann Hagedorn's Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad tells the remarkable story of the participants in the Ripley line of the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the struggles of the men and women, black and white, who fought "the war before the war" along the Ohio River. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 ann-hagedorn no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/ayres/index.php Katherine Ayres's novels revolve around the moral and ethical dilemmas experienced by boys and girls living along the Underground Railroad, and in doing so, she highlights the fact that the decisions we make in life are never easy ones. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 katherine-ayres no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/bujold/index.php Bujold is best known for her science fiction series centered upon the character of Miles Vorkosigan, a brilliant military leader with physical disabilities, who lives in a world that values physical perfection. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/bujold.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/powell/index.php Dawn Powell's eye for paradox may be what made her novels such accurate portrayals of upper-middle-class life in New York and small-town Ohio from the 1920s to the mid-60s. Her characters are painfully realistic, full of flaws, at once sympathetic and despicable. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/powell.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/bombeck/index.php Erma Bombeck's best-selling books and syndicated newspaper column, At Wit's End, satirized the suburbs and the tedium of motherhood and housewifery. Housewives in "typical" homes across the country claimed that Bombeck understood them like no one else; they laughed at her columns with both delight and relief. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/bombeck.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/crane/index.php Harold Hart Crane lived a tumultuous life. Over the course of his 33 years, he traveled frequently between Cleveland and New York City, searching for love and companionship from men and women, longing to return to the "home" he'd never really had. He published several well-received poems including The Bridge, and made notable, devoted friends like William Carlos Williams, Sherwood Anderson, and Allen Tate. Tragically, the alcoholic tendencies which sometimes inspired his work also led to his early demise. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/crane.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/lenski/index.php Believing that books for children were under a greater obligation than to merely entertain, Lenski wrote that they "should illumine the whole adventure of living." Many of her books focus in on daily life for children in carefully researched historical time periods or regions of the country she experienced first-hand. Lois met and wrote about children in poor, rural communities underrepresented in children's literature in a realistic, unsentimental way. She said, "Life is full of amazing drama if we have the awareness to see and understand it." Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/lenski.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/bierce/index.php Ambrose Bierce, also called "Bitter Bierce," was known for his biting wit. Born in Meigs County, Ohio, he became the only war writer of his time to have actually experienced battle, after enlisting in the Indiana Infantry to fight the Civil War and sustaining a bullet wound to the head. His wartime experiences inspired much of his writing; his injury might have inspired much of his cynicism. His best known works include An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which took place during the Civil War, and The Devil's Dictionary, an encyclopedia of sarcasm, from which the headings for his "Highlights of a Life" were taken. Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/bierce.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/oliver/index.php Cleveland native Mary Oliver has won many awards for her poetry, including the National Book Award, and in 1984, the Pulitzer Prize. When news of the award arrived, however, there was no fanfare, no interruption of her daily life. Mary Oliver accepted congratulations from friends around the country and quietly went back to work. "I suppose it would be more interesting if I were different," she was quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 19, 1984. "I simply do not distinguish between work and play." Ohioana Authors Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/oliver.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/wright/index.php James Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. A newspaper editor once expressed astonishment that the Depression-era, dilapidated steel and coal mining town, between the Midwest rust belt and Appalachia, could have produced such a refined poetic voice. Ohioana Authors Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/wright.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/winegardner/index.php Mark Winegardner grew up among the Dum Dum suckers and Etch A Sketch toys of Bryan, Ohio, where he learned to love road trips from his RV-dealing father, baseball from his sports fan granddad, and reading from a friendly Williams County librarian. Who would have known, when he was booted from his Little League team and rejected from five creative-writing programs, that he would one day direct a creative writing department, publish several books about baseball, and win the nomination to write one of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, The Godfather Returns. Ohioana Authors Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/winegardner.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/dove/index.php Rita Dove is a rarity in many ways, one being that she's a poet with a high public profile. She was the youngest and first African-American Poet Laureate of the United States, and one of the few to carry the post for two years, from 1993 to 1995. Ohioana Authors Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/dove.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/shulman/index.php Alix Kates Shulman's appetite for challenge has motivated her writing and her life, whether she was taking on math and philosophy graduate work, questioning restrictions on women in the 1950s and 60s, or surviving alone on a desert island. Ohioana Authors Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/shulman.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/benson/index.php Hired in 1930 to ghostwrite a new series about a female teen detective, Mildred Wirt Benson defined a character, Nancy Drew, that was a striking contrast to the dull, demure heroines of the early 1900s. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/benson.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/berger/index.php While Thomas Berger is well enough liked for his most popular novels such as Little Big Man, Neighbors, and The Feud, many critics claim that he doesn’t get the attention he deserves. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/berger.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/boyle/index.php Always blending her devotion to art and social justice, Kay Boyle published prolifically in fiction, and wrote about the compelling issues of the day: the war against fascism, the struggle against McCarthy, the fight for racial and sexual equality, and the war in Vietnam. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/boyle.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/catrow/index.php David Catrow’s day job is with the Springfield News-Sun; he creates popular editorial cartoons, now syndicated in more than 900 newspapers. Beyond the editorial pages, his signature zany illustrations delight a much younger audience that has come to love Catrow for his picture books. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/coan/index.php Peter Morton Coan won a spot on the New York Times best-selling list for his 1998 release of Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words (reprinted in 2004). Considered the definitive work on the subject of Ellis Island, Coan’s book contains the stories of more than 130 people who were among the millions of immigrants who came through New York’s infamous “Golden Door” between 1892 and 1954. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/coan.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/crusie/index.php Jenny Crusie is the pseudonym for Jennifer Smith, a Wapakoneta, Ohio-born writer of romances. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/crusie.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/dirda/index.php Michael Dirda has been a writer and senior editor for "The Washington Post Book World" for more than 25 years. He writes a Sunday column about books, from new-book reviews to reflections on neglected masterpieces. His work earned him the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/dirda.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/dunbar/index.php Born to ex-slaves in 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first African American to achieve prominence as a poet. Though he lived only 33 years, Dunbar rose to international fame for his signature dialect verse or “plantation talk.” Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/dunbar.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/eckert/index.php A resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, 74-year old Allan Eckert has won distinction as a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. His 1967 historical novel, The Frontiersmen, was adapted to the popular outdoor drama, TECUMSEH. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/eckert.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/haygood/index.php Wil Haygood’s books include Two on the River, which chronicles a 2,000 mile journey down the Mississippi, King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. But Haygood is best known for his 1997 biography, The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/haygood.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/o_henry/index.php From 1898 to 1901, William Sydney Porter completed some of his best work while living in Columbus – behind bars at the federal penitentiary. Sentenced to serve five years for embezzlement, Porter used the time to write short stories under the pseudonym, O. Henry, and lived to become one of the finest storytellers in American literature. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/o_henry.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/himler/index.php Artist and Cleveland native Ronald Himler has illustrated more than 150 children’s books. The award-winning picture books The Wall, and Fly Away Home, were illustrated by Himler and written by Eve Bunting. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/howells/index.php With his prolific output and his love for literature and humanity, William Dean Howells certainly earned his title, “The Dean of American Letters.” He spent fifteen years as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, transforming the publication into a highly-regarded magazine. He introduced British and European writers to American audiences, and helped jump-start the careers of such important American writers as Henry James and Mark Twain. Howells also published his own poetry, literary criticism, plays, short fiction, and novels. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/howells.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/hughes/index.php Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) went from the uncertainty and obscurity of being black and poor into the world of artistic and material success, without much but a love of words and boundless energy to make something of himself. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/hughes.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/hurst/index.php Hamilton, Ohio-born Fannie Hurst was a prolific writer and best-selling novelist for more than 40 years. Hurst produced nearly a title a year in the 1920s and wrote until her death in 1968. Accenting her career as a novelist, Hurst also found success as a playwright, screenwriter, television personality, lecturer and activist. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/hurst.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/jakes/index.php John Jakes hit pay-dirt in 1974 with his series of historical fiction novels that traces the lives of one family from 1776 forward. The assignment turned out to be one of the most successful series of mass-market fiction ever published, the Bicentennial Series, also known as The Kent Family Chronicles. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/jakes.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/johnson_j/index.php While Conrad Richter’s books portrayed – and glorified – the conquest of the land by pioneers, Josephine Johnson’s work acknowledged nature’s ultimate power over man, and advocated letting the land return to its natural state. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/lawrence_lee/index.php Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee are best known as the team that wrote Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. Together they wrote 39 shows for the stage, including 14 Broadway productions, over and above an award-studded body of work that includes radio drama, screenplays, television shows and books. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/lawrence_lee.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/matthews/index.php Novelist, poet and, most recently, playwright, Jack Matthews is the author of six novels, five short story collections, three books of essays and one book of poems. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/matthews.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/mccloskey/index.php Beloved children’s book author and illustrator, Robert McCloskey, captivated generations of readers with his award-winning books including Make Way for Ducklings, Lentil, and Blueberries for Sal. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ohio, McCloskey was the first two-time winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal for children’s book illustration. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/mccloskey.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/morrison/index.php Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison is one of the most prominent authors in world literature. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, her most widely read novel is Beloved (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted for a TV movie series. In 1993 she became the 11th American writer to win the Nobel Prize. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/morrison.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/orr/index.php Given her beginnings as an actress, however, it fits that Mary Orr should be best known for writing the short story on which the Academy Award-winning film “All About Eve” was based. “The Wisdom of Eve,” Mary Orr’s short story, is a Broadway satire, published in Cosmopolitan magazine a few years after she began co-writing plays with her husband, Reginald Denham. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/orr.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/peale/index.php Ohio native Norman Vincent Peale broke new ground in Christian ministry when he discovered mass media as a means to spread his gospel beyond the pulpit to the homes of millions. His 1952 best-seller, The Power of Positive Thinking, is considered the ancestor for a generation of inspirational self-help books. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/peale.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/purdy/index.php A native of Fremont, Ohio, Purdy’s fiction continues to be more highly-respected in Europe than in the U.S. Since he began writing in the 1940s, Purdy has composed countless poems, short stories, and has written 19 novels, including the 1959 underground classic, Malcolm. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/purdy.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/reston/index.php In his first assignment as a New York Times Washington correspondent, James (Scotty) Reston won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for reporting. The exclusive series of articles outlining plans to create the United Nations prompted an FBI investigation, and put Reston on the map as a powerful foreign policy journalist. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/reston.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/richter/index.php Conrad Richter won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Town, in 1951. The book was the third in what became known as Richter’s Ohio Trilogy, later published in one volume entitled The Awakening Land: The Trees, The Fields, The Town. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/rosen/index.php Michael J. Rosen has been the literary director of the Thurber House in Columbus since 1983. Rosen edited Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself. He’s also written numerous silly and charming children’s books of his own. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/salamon/index.php Within the past decade, journalist and author Julie Salamon has won acclaim for her compelling and insightful works of nonfiction. Born and raised in the Appalachian community of Seaman, Ohio, Salamon has written a series of award-winning titles, including Facing the Wind (2001), The Net of Dreams (1996), and, most recently, Rambam’s Ladder (2003). Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/salamon.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/santmyer/index.php Helen Hooven Santmyer gave hope to late bloomers when she became a best-selling author at the age of 88. The nursing home resident of Xenia, Ohio was nearly blind and confined to a wheelchair when she wrote the final pages of “…And Ladies of the Club.” Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/santmyer.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/schlesinger/index.php In scholarly circles, 88-year-old Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. has been a distinguished contributor to American history since, at the age of 20, he wrote his first critically-acclaimed book. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner has written 18 books and countless essays on liberal theory. He is one of America’s most influential historians, as well as a champion of Democratic and liberal policies. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/schlesinger.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/steinem/index.php Toledo native Gloria Steinem is one of the most influential feminists of our time. In 1972, Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, and later established the Ms. Magazine Foundation, which promotes self-esteem among girls with initiatives like the “Take Your Daughter to Work Day.” In addition to her work as a journalist, Steinem is the author of several books, including the best-selling Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983) and Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1992). Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/steinem.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/stine/index.php Columbus native R.L. Stine went from being an obscure magazine editor to the best-selling children's author in history, passing such prolific novelists as Stephen King, John Grisham and Tom Clancy. Stine rose to fame in the early nineties, when he launched the wildly popular Goosebumps, a series featuring spooky tales for ages eight to eleven. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/stine.mp3 no http://www.ohioana-authors.org/taylor/index.php Peter Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, A Summons to Memphis, late in his career. A Summons to Memphis contained the qualities that Taylor was best known for: a natural ear for dialogue, a smooth, well-paced style, and a sensitive character portrayal. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/thurber/index.php The most celebrated author to hail from Columbus, Ohio, James Thurber is generally regarded as the greatest American humorist since Mark Twain. Thurber's best-known characters are Walter Mitty, his snarling wife, and silently observing animals. Despite an accident in childhood that left him with one eye, Thurber wrote close to 40 books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children's stories. Ohioana Authors Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ohioana-authors.org/radio/thurber.mp3 no