Tag: Enslow Publishers

J.R.R. Tolkien in his own words

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
January 3, 2013
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Today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday: he was born January 3, 1892. In honor of that occasion, here’s the section entitled “In His Own Words” from the biography of Tolkien I wrote for Enslow Publishers, J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Imaginary Worlds. These quotes are drawn from on an interview with Tolkien conducted by Daphne Castell and …

The birth of The Hobbit

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
December 14, 2012
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I posted this back in July, but it seems apropos to post it again today, with the release of the first movie in the new trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit. It’s the first chapter of the biography of Tolkien I wrote for Enslow Publishers, entitled J.R.R. Tolkien, Master of Imaginary Worlds..and it’s …

Saturday Special: Lisa Fernando and Canada’s epidemic response team

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
September 30, 2012
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In view of the announcement this week that Canada will send a mobile laboratory to help stem an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I offer an account of a similar effort from Canada to help combat an outbreak of Marburg hemmorhagic fever (closely related to Ebola) in Angola a few years …

Saturday (er, Sunday) Special: J.R.R. Tolkien, Master of Imaginary Worlds

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, The Vaults
July 29, 2012
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I think I’ve now posted the introductions to all of the biographies I wrote for Enslow Publishers except this one: J.R.R. Tolkien, Master of Imaginary Worlds. Like my book on Orson Scott Card, it was part of their Authors Teens Love series. Why, yes, I did really really enjoy writing this one. How did you …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Orson Scott Card

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, The Vaults
June 16, 2012
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I wrote two author biographies for Enslow Publishers’ Authors Teen Love series. One was on J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other on noted SF/fantasy writer Orson Scott Card. The former was easy because he was long dead and had been written about a great deal, the latter harder because he’s very much alive and hasn’t been …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Janis Joplin: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, The Vaults
April 7, 2012
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Another Enslow book, Janis Joplin: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart tells the story of another ’60s rock star who died at age 27–within just a few weeks of Jimi Hendrix’s death. Since I also wrote biographies of Johnny Cash and Andy Warhol for Enslow, I spent several months kind of stuck in the …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: The Bounty Mutiny: From the Court Case to the Movie

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, The Vaults
March 31, 2012
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One of the more interesting projects I undertook for Enslow Publishers was a history of the famous Mutiny on the Bounty, comparing the real-life events to the way they were portrayed in the movie starring Anthony Hopkins as William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian that came out in the 1980s. I’ve always enjoyed …

Saturday Special From the Vaults: Introduction to Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, The Vaults
March 17, 2012
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For several years I wrote numerous non-fiction books for Enslow Publishers, ranging from science books to biographies. Among the biographies were four for a series called American Rebels, for which I wrote books on Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol…and Jimi Hendrix. For this week’s Saturday special, the introduction (complete with footnotes!) to Jimi Hendrix: …

The Holy Grail of hemophilia treatment

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
December 13, 2011
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[podcast]https://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/12/Hemophilia-Gene-Therapy.mp3[/podcast] Over more than two decades of science writing, I’ve seen a lot of my past writings rendered obsolete by scientific progress. Case in point: the release last week of a research report on exciting new progress in gene therapy for hemophiliacs. Back in 2001, I wrote a book on hemophilia for the Enslow Publishers …

Confessions of a cyberchondriac

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 7, 2011
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A few years ago I wrote several children’s books for the Diseases and People series put out by Enslow Publishers. It’s amazing when you’re writing about disease how easy it is to convince yourself you’ve got the symptoms of whatever you’re writing about. The first book was Meningitis. Stiff neck? You bet. Of course, I …

My bios of Johnny Cash and Andy Warhol are out!

By Edward Willett in Blog
August 23, 2010
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Both are listed as “In Stock” on Amazon and I have my author’s copies, so it must be true! Here are the covers (and the back-cover copy) for each: Johnny Cash: The Man in Black When country music legend Johnny Cash took the stage at Folsom State Prison in 1968, he solidified the public’s perception …

Audiobook of Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky now available

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 22, 2010
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I had a nice surprise in the mail today: the audiobook version of my children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky. The book was published by Enslow Publishers; the audibook was created by Recorded Books. Narrator Ezra Knight does an absolutely fabulous job, not surprising considering what an accomplished actor he is. …