authors perspective

By far and away the best of these sites is Bookbrowse. It has hundreds of authors (as usual stong American bias and low/nil NZ content) aqnd all the authors that I found are still living. the biog. appear to have been written by the autors themselves. It has some podcasts of author interviews but also written interviews which I find more concise and appealing. The podcast I watched (the beginning of anyway) was of Hilary Mantel, author of "Wolf Hall" It has book summaries and reviews by many reviewers. A one stop shop for info on contemporary authors!
Good for rounding out picture of book's geneisis and to satisfy nosiness about the author's origins. I will use this for myself and for patrons.