Back Author Spotlight

SelectReads.com
Simple News Pro
  AuthorSpot - Foreign Languages  

Benjamin Dreyer

track author

Benjamin Dreyer is vice president, executive managing editor and copy chief, of Random House. He began his publishing career as a freelance proofreader and copy editor. In 1993, he became a production editor at Random House, overseeing books by writers including Michael Chabon, Edmund Morris, Suzan-Lori Parks, Michael Pollan, Peter Straub, and Calvin Trillin. He has copyedited books by authors including E. L. Doctorow, David Ebershoff, Frank Rich, and Elizabeth Strout, as well as Let Me Tell You, a volume of previously uncollected work by Shirley Jackson. A graduate of Northwestern University, he lives in New York...

Samantha Cleaver

track author

Dr. Samantha Cleaver has worked in education for more than a decade. Her experience, as a teacher, school leader, researcher, and parent, all contributes to her writing for parents and teachers. She, like many teachers and teachers-at-heart, loves reading, researching reading, and writing about reading. Her most recent work, Read with Me: Engaging Your Young Child in Active Reading, was a collaboration with Dr. Munro Richardson and came out of their work advancing early literacy in Charlotte, NC. In addition to writing, Dr. Cleaver currently teaches middle school and is working on writing books that children and adults...