7 Author Shoutouts – Authors We Love To Recommend

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Here are seven author shoutouts for this week. Check out which authors are your favorites, and discover an author you haven’t read.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow, born in Toronto, Canada, is an advocate for copyright reform and the Creative Commons organization. He began his writing career at 17 and published his first novel before the age of 22. Doctorow’s adult novels, including Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Makers, and Walkaway (2017), are characterized by their unique and intense narratives. In his young adult works, such as Little Brother, For the Win, Pirate Cinema, and Homeland, Doctorow explores themes of personal freedom, social and digital media, and the rights of individuals in the digital age.

His novel, Red Team Blues (a financial thriller about cybersecurity), was released in April 2023 and The Lost Cause, dropped in November 2023.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson hailed from Louisville, Kentucky. He became an emblematic figure of the counterculture movement and exemplified the concept of Gonzo journalism, where journalists immerse themselves in the events to the extent that they become integral characters in their own narratives. Thompson’s extensive coverage of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang, his renowned Fear and Loathing literary works, his affiliation with Rolling Stone magazine, his defiance towards authority and strong antipathy towards Richard Nixon, as well as his indulgence in drugs and alcohol, garnered him admiration from many but also branded him an outcast by others.

He committed suicide in 2005 at age 67; at his funeral, his ashes were shot out of a cannon mounted on the top of a hill, accompanied by fireworks and music.

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Garth Nix

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Garth Nix is a YA fantasy writer known for his works such as the Seventh Tower, Keys to the Kingdom, and Old Kingdom series. Throughout his career, he has been involved in various literary roles, including working in a bookstore, being a sales representative, publicist, literary agent, marketing consultant, and eventually becoming a senior editor at HarperCollins. Since 2002, he has dedicated himself to writing full-time. Notably, Nix’s notable books include the bestseller Clariel in 2014 and Terciel and Elinor in 2021.

In addition, he has authored various scenarios and articles within the realm of role-playing, including Dungeons & Dragons. Furthermore, he has contributed IT articles and news pieces for esteemed publications like Computerworld and PCWorld. Currently, he resides in Australia alongside his wife and sons.

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Cormac McCarthy

From Providence, Rhode Island hails Cormac McCarthy, a renowned writer of 12 novels, 2 short stories, 3 screenplays, and 2 stage plays. Among his notable accolades are the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for the critically acclaimed work All the Pretty Horses, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, which was later adapted into a major motion picture. Another remarkable creation of his is the 2005 novel No Country for Old Men, which the Coen Brothers successfully transformed into an Academy Award-winning film in 2007.

His final novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, were published in 2022 shortly before his death in June of this year at the age of 89.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway hailed from Oak Park, Illinois. Despite his modest output of only publishing seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime (with additional works released posthumously), the majority of his literary creations are widely regarded as masterpieces. These include A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.

He possessed an enormous presence: involved in a war, reporting on multiple others; an expatriate residing in Paris as a member of the Lost Generation; a fervent lover of the outdoors, engaging in activities like big game hunting, fishing, and bullfighting; a recipient of both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes; married four times and divorced three; renowned for his heavy drinking and frequently plagued by various illnesses and accidents. Papa took his own life in 1961 at the age of 61.

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S.E. Hinton

S.E. Hinton, the renowned author, hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma. During her high school years, she penned her debut book, The Outsiders, which has achieved remarkable success with over 14 million copies sold. Notably, four of her novels, including The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (for which she collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola on the screenplay), as well as That Was Then…This Is Now and Tex, have been adapted into movies.

A very private person, she nevertheless has had cameo roles in three of the four movies made from her novels, and has been an extra on the television show Supernatural, of which she is a huge fan.

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Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, New York. Her debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, published in 2008, quickly became a bestseller on the New York Times list. It was a finalist for the Orange Prize for New Writers and both Amazon.com and the San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the Best Books of the year. Her novel Fates and Furies, also reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list and earned recognition from President Barack Obama, who included it in his favorite books of 2015. Groff’s extensive body of work includes four novels, two collections, and numerous short stories.

Her fifth novel was The Vaster Wilds (about a servant girl who escapes from a colonial settlement into the wilderness).

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