Frances Burney (1752-1840) was a British novelist, diarist, and
playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one
biography, and twenty volumes of journals and letters. She is best
known for her landmark work Evelina.
Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel
Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe
into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized
into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the
Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set
on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron
Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans
and the alien Buggers. Card has been a working writer since the
1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced
in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in
1977--the short story Gert Fram in the July issue of The Ensign,
and the novelette version of Ender's Game in the August issue of
Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984
and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013
film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee
Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. Card was born in
Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He
served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s.
Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and
directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses
at Southern Virginia University. He is the author many science
fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy
series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), and
stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has
collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series,
Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire
and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious
novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the
Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical
fantasy for readers both young and old. Card lives in Greensboro,
North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine
are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.
Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel
Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe
into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized
into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the
Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set
on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron
Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans
and the alien Buggers. Card has been a working writer since the
1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced
in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in
1977--the short story Gert Fram in the July issue of The Ensign,
and the novelette version of Ender's Game in the August issue of
Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984
and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013
film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee
Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. Card was born in
Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He
served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s.
Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and
directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses
at Southern Virginia University. He is the author many science
fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy
series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), and
stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has
collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series,
Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire
and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious
novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the
Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical
fantasy for readers both young and old. Card lives in Greensboro,
North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine
are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.
Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen
debut in Charles Chaplin's motion picture Limelight. Among her many
memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger,
and A Doll's House.
Emily Janice Card (a.k.a. Emily Rankin) is an actor, writer, and
singer. In addition to being a narrator, she has directed numerous
audiobooks, including the 2007 Audie and Earphones Award winner
Hubris, Legacy of Ashes by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, and
Them by Nathan McCall. Her own audiobook narration has won her four
Earphones Awards.
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now
a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than
three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or
director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A
recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented
the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014,
and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012.
Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three
hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles
requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a
cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a
three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile
Earphones Awards. Her "velvet touch" as an actor's director has
earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost
producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.
Before Evelina, the heart of girlhood had never been so fully
opened in literature.-- "William Dean Howells, American author and
literary critic"
Fanny Burney's first novel, Evelina, was the chick-lit novel of
1778--all about a young girl's adventures in London and one of the
best of its kind ever written.-- "Times (London)"
We owe to [Burney] not only Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla but also
Mansfield Park and The Absentee.-- "Thomas Babington Macaulay,
British essayist and reviewer"
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