EelKat
Who is This EelKat Person Anyways?
I love Eels. I love Bobcat. I am a Giant Squid and this is my official profile lens on Squidoo. I figured I needed an "about me" page, since people keeping asking me questions about myself and things I do, that way I can say look, here's the answer right here. I'll try to keep this lens current and updated weekly, now let's see if I actually do that! UPDATE: Because this lens got so very very long, way out growing itself, it has now been cut and divided out across several smaller lenses, wi...

Best Selling Authors of All Time
Mr Lucky
Death of a man with twin souls, wrath of the gods, a new habitat and? Best selling authors such as.... Dan Brown J. D. Salinger H. Rider Haggard Agatha Christie J.. R. R. Tolkien Charles Dickens And many more

Maya Angelou-Poet, Author and Teacher
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is one of my favorite authors and poets, as well as being in my opinion, one of this world's best teachers. The moment I was introduced to her words of wisdom and heard them spoken with such grace in a way only Maya herself could deliver, I was drawn to her. There is something about the way Maya recites every word using her almost hypnotic and mystical voice; you lose yourself in the power of the moment. Maya has realness about her that could never be put on and I believe this tr...

James M Cain Steamy Fiction Writer
James M. Cain His Books Were Movies
I read the book Double Indemnity by James M. Cain a long time ago. After reading the book I wanted to see the much talked about movie by the same name. I was hooked with that first book. There is a pretty good collection of his novels in the house now. Since the mini series "Mildred Pierce", book owners have been putting their vintage James M Cain novels up for sale on Ebay. Buy them now before those books go in hiding again. See a sampling below. James M. Cain became famous with his first ...

Douglas Quinn - Multi-Genre Author
Douglas Quinn, Multi-Genre Author
Will the real Douglas Quinn please reveal himself? Is he the author of adult mysteries such as 'The Catalan Gambit", the fast and furious, Machiavellian plot that, once you begin reading you can't put down Or Is the real Douglas Quinn, the author of The Children's Mystery Book Series about 'The Adventures of Quinn Higgins: Boy Detective'? Now another questions is, who is Quinn Higgins, the boy detective, and what adventures capture him in mystery? Or... who is Henry Ellis., Mr. Quinn's ...

Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist of the Early 1900s
Birdwoman of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter was a naturalist, a photographer and a novelist in the early 1900s. Her heartwarming stories of romance remain popular with their old-fashioned values of honor and hard work. I read them when I was young, and loved them so much that they are in the "keeper" section of my personal library. My sister was so influenced by the author's messages about conservation and nature, that she performs as Gene Stratton-Porter at libraries, festivals, senior centers and nature sites. ...

John Irving, Fancy Fisher
Author John Irving Books Interviews & Blogs
I love books by Irving, John, the author. John Irving writes like a truth capitalist. He is a novelist who frames context so well that one feels compelled to view things from his characters' perspectives, as if it were perfectly natural to do so. I know that in the World According to Garp, I did view the world as author Irving was trying to convey. I cried, and laughed my way through Irving's imaginary character Garp's perspective- which is what we're looking for in books to read. John Irving...

Ruth Madison
Ruth Madison: Romance Author
There isn't enough fiction out there with characters who have disabilities. I aim to fix that. After years of combing through the dusty back shelves of libraries looking for my elusive, imperfect hero, I started writing my own. My romantic tales are full of wounded heroes: men physically challenged by life, but not defeated. These men overcome the difficulties of amputation, paralysis, or cerebral palsy to find acceptance, happiness, and heroines who love them exactly as they are.

Audio Books Authors List
Audio Books Authors
Every day more authors have their novels published as audio books. This group offers a home for all lenses about authors that publish also in MP3 audio format. A good place to download these audio books without further obligation and a possiblity to listen in to the audio books is this audio books shop

Anne Tyler: Author
An Author with Insight and a Funny Bone . . .
I like Anne Tyler's books because of the complex and often quirky characters in her stories. Her books make great bed time reading, sitting on the sun porch reading, and curled up on the sofa when its raining reading. Tyler was a graduate of Duke University and did graduate studies at Columbia University. In 1988, her book Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize. "II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a thought about...