Chinua AchebeFamous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is among the 76 outstanding writers chronicled in a new book by author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May.
The writers reflected on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the beauty of the Hudson Valley in a great collection of their portraits, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers.
NINA SHENGOLD is Books Editor at Chronogram magazine, and has written author profiles for Poets & Writers. Her novel Clearcut was published by Anchor Books in 2005. She won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love. With Eric Lane, she has edited twelve theatre anthologies for Vintage Books and Viking Penguin. She lives in Stone Ridge, New York, with her daughter, Maya.
Visit her website: www.ninashengold.com.
JENNIFER MAY’s portraits of authors have appeared on book jackets for Harcourt, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Norton, Seven Stories, Doubleday, and others. In 2009, May flew around the United States photographing women for The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a Difference (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011). Her photography has also appeared in periodicals including the New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Country Home; Chronogram; Hudson Valley Magazine; Poets & Writers; and Gourmet. She lives with her husband, the artist Chris Metze, in Woodstock, New York.
Visit her website: www.jennifermay.com.
The Hudson Valley writers.
Susannah Appelbaum
John Ashbery
Shalom Auslander
Scott Ian Barry
Barbara Bash
Helen Benedict & Stephen O’Connor
Gwendolyn Bounds
Jon Bowermaster
John Bowers
Wesley Brown
Akiko Busch
Kris Carr
Benjamin Cheever
Da Chen & Sunny
Laura Shaine Cunningham
John Darnton
Cornelius Eady & Sarah Micklem
Nick Flynn
Martha Frankel
Alison Gaylin
Tony, Dan, & Frank D. Gilroy
Jonathan Gould
Mikhail Horowitz
Marie Howe
Marilyn Johnson
Robert Kelly
Lucy Knisley
Casey Kurtti
James Lasdun
Naton Leslie
Ann M. Martin
Jana Martin
Valerie Martin & John Cullen
Malachy, Alphie, & Frank McCourt
Daniel Mendelsohn
Bradford Morrow
Ron Nyswaner
Susan Orlean
Leila Philip
Daniel Pinkwater
Julie Powell
Nicole Quinn
David Rees
Susan Richards
Charley Rosen
Edwin Sanchez
Edward Sanders
Esmeralda Santiago
Gene Santoro
John Sayles
Edward Schwarzschild
Pete Seeger
Danny Shanahan
John Patrick Shanley
Russell Shorto
Zachary Sklar
Sparrow
Nova Ren Suma
Hudson Talbott
Abigail Thomas
Corinne Trang
Janine Pommy Vega
Linda Villarosa
Nancy Willard
Daniel Wolff
Rebecca Wolff
Kim Wozencraft
(Nina Shengold)
(Jennifer May)
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