The Page 69 Test

Jody Lynn Nye is the author of many books and stories, including a series written with Anne McCaffrey and another with Robert Asprin . She...

Jeffrey Rotter holds an MFA from Hunter College where he studied under Peter Carey, Colson Whitehead, Colum McCann, and Andrew Sean Greer a...

Dennis Tafoya was born in Philadelphia and attended Oberlin College. He dropped out and worked a series of jobs, including housepainter, ho...

Vanora Bennett is the author of two works of nonfiction, Crying Wolf: The Return of War to Chechnya and The Taste of Dreams: ...

Walter Boyne ’s ninth novel, Hypersonic Thunder is the concluding volume in his trilogy on the history of jet aviation. The first two volum...

Carola Dunn 's fifty novels include the long-running Daisy Dalrymple mystery series. She applied the “ Page 69 Test ” to her new novel, ...

Stefanie Pintoff is the winner of the first Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Crime Novel Competition. A graduate of Col...

J. Robert Lennon is the author of four novels including Mailman and The Light of Falling Stars . His stories have appeared in McSweeney’s ...

Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times , the Nation , the New York Times , the Washing...

David Rollins is a former advertising creative director who lives in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Death Trust and A Knife Ed...

S.G. Browne worked in Hollywood for several years before moving to Santa Cruz to be a writer. He currently lives and writes in San Francisc...

Gayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopol...