This month, the Edison Public Library is celebrating some of the prolific May-born authors whose works line our shelves.
The authors include 1800s American poets Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25) and Walt Whitman (May 31) along with modern-day novelists Hank Green (May 5), Jennifer Niven (May 14), Jodi Picoult (May 19), and the late Maeve Binchy (May 28). The late Joseph Heller (May 1), best-known for the satirical war novel Catch-22, along with Peter Benchley (May 8), who had everyone asking ‘is it safe to go in the water?’ long before his novel Jaws became a major motion picture, were also born this month as were the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22), creator of beloved characters such as private detective and master of deductive Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. John Watson. Authors who also celebrated in May were the late L. Frank Baum (May 15), who first introduced us to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the late Lorraine Hansberry (May 19), who, with her screenplay A Raisin in the Sun, became the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.
Whether you prefer romance, the classics, suspense, or good old whodunit, why not stop by one of the Edison Public Library’s branches and celebrate these May-born authors? |
