Comments on: Celebrity writers and forgotten authors http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: black authors http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-18789 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:55:04 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/#comment-18789 I would second the motion to have Trixie Belden back into print!

]]> By: DGLM http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-18752 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:38:33 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/#comment-18752 Trixie Belden! I read stacks of these novels, which were originally the property of my oldest sister. Not sure what happened to them, or the Bobbsey Twins books, or the many volumes of Nancy Drew that she had also amassed.

Also in the children's lit category, I'd nominate Tom's Midnight Garden, all books by Edward Eager and E. Nesbit.

–Jessica

]]> By: gmfranci http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-18747 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:40:49 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/#comment-18747 Mary Renault's 1944 The Friendly Young Ladies has not been reprinted since the early 1980's. She is better known for her novels set in ancient Greece, but while the contemporary Young Ladies isn't necessarily her best writing, its somewhat stilted style brilliantly captures the tenor of lives touched by the secrecy of a closeted relationship. The reader experiences the thrill of these women who are so bold, fun, lively, and also the frustration of knowing that they will never share everything with us. We will always be kept at arm's length.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-18746 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:08:20 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/#comment-18746 Katherine Kenny's Trixie Belden series! A few years ago they brought back numbers 1 through 15, but there's more than 30 in total. I've been hunting them down in second hand bookshops for years, but the higher the number, the harder it is to find :(

]]> By: Suzi McGowen http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-18743 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:09:24 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/celebrity-writers-and-forgotten-authors/#comment-18743 I want Kin Platt's "Sinbad and Me" to come back so badly I actually have a pain in my jaw when I think about it! (I never read his other books, so I'd like them all to come back.)

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