Michael Cunningham is the author of seven novels: A Home at the End of the World (1990), Flesh and Blood (1995), The Hours (1998), Specimen Days (2005), By Nightfall (2010), The Snow Queen (2014), and Day (2024). A collection of short stories, A Wild Swan and Other Tales, was published in 2016. A work of non-fiction, Land’s End, appeared in 2003, and a new non-fiction book, Unsayable, is forthcoming in the summer of 2026. The…

A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is the author of one book of nonfiction and three books of poetry, most recently The Singing River (Belle Point Press, 2025). He holds an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. His work has appeared in The…

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in…

Jess Armstrong is the USA Today best selling author of the Ruby Vaughn Mysteries. The third in series, The Devil in Oxford, is out now. She has a masters degree in American History but prefers writing about imaginary people to the real thing. Jess lives in New Orleans with her historian husband, two sons, and…

Nina Bozak is the curator of rare books at the Historic New Orleans Collection, having previously worked in the special collections of both Tulane and Dillard Universities before joining the staff of the HNOC in 2010. In addition to her work with HNOC’s rare books, Nina is also a curator for its performing arts collections.…