Authors Map
During semester one we will read about the childhood
and adolescence of authors from around the world.
Click on the author's name to read and see more.
(Not all authors are active. More will be added as the semester progresses.)


Truth is stranger than fiction.
Truth is the drip, drip, drip of daily life.

Maya Angelou: telling it all, with grace and guts

Frank McCourt: reasons to be bitter but forgiveness and laughter prevail

Jean-Paul Sartre: gifted and talented, friends in his grandfather's books

Tashi Tsering: twists and turns trying to find balance and make a difference

Namgyal Lhamo Taklha: a story to tell, with a little help from her friends
Elie Weisel: presence and the power of memory

Maxine Hong Kingston: exploring the hyphen in Chinese-American

Jill Ker Conway: from down under to on top

Kurt Vonnegut: he wryly supposed everyone would want dignity

Dylan Thomas: a fluid Welsh tongue, doomed by far too much fluid

Richard Kim: losing his name but helping us find more