Arts, Entertainment & Literature

Artists
(Fine Arts)

See also Mysteries - Arts

Try:
Nick Bantock ~ The Forgetting Room
Harriet Scott Chessman ~ Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Tracy Chevalier ~ Girl with a Pearl Earring
Joe Coomer ~ One Vacant Chair
Susan Dunant ~ The Birth of Venus
Jeffrey Ford ~ The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Mario Vargas Llosa ~ The Way to Paradise
Shena MacKay ~ The Artists's Widow
Carolyn See ~ The Handyman
Susan Vreeland ~ The Forest Lover
Larry Watson ~ Orchard


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Circus

Try:
Dee Brown ~ The Way to Bright Star
Jeanne M. Dams ~ Silence is Golden
Amanda Davis ~ Wonder When You'll Miss Me
Cathy Day ~ The Circus in Winter
Katherine Dunn ~ Geek Love
Louise Erdrich ~ The Master Butchers Singing Club
Stephen Galloway ~ Ascension
Dorothy Gilman ~ Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
Sara Gruen ~ Water for Elephants
Harry Harrison ~ Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus
Robert Hough ~ The Final Confessions of Mabel Stark
John Irving ~ A Son of the Circus
Stuart M. Kaminsky ~ Catch a Falling Clown
Iain Lawrence ~ Ghost Boy
Margaret Maron ~ Slow Dollar
Michael Raleigh ~ The Blue Moon Circus
Richard Schmitt ~ The Aerialist
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith ~ Masters of Illusion
M.J. Trow ~ Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring
Anne Ursu ~ The Disapparation of James
Sydell I. Voeller ~ A Three-ring Romance
Robb White ~ The Long Way Down

Dance & Dancers

Try:
Candice Leigh Brown ~ The Body of Dancers
Ellen Cooney ~ The Old Ballerina
Howard Dando ~ Dancers in the Dark
Susan Dunant ~ Birth Marks
Jane Hamilton ~ The Short History of a Prince
Lorri Hewett ~ Dancer
Eva Ibbotson ~ A Company of Swans
Julie L'Enfant ~ The Dancers of Sycamore Street
Colum McCann ~ Dancer
Yona Zeldis McDonough ~ The Four Temperaments
Michael Powell ~ The Red Shoes
Adrienne Sharp ~ White Swan, Black Swan

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Film and Film Stars

Try:
Kate Clemens ~ The Stand In
Robert Eversz ~ Burning Garbo
Robert Ferrigno ~ Scavenger Hunt
Joy Fielding ~ Lost
Elizabeth Hay ~ Garbo Laughs
Robert Kaplow ~ Me and Orson Welles
Laurence Klavan ~ The Cutting Room
Fern Michaels ~ Crown Jewel
Dan Paisner ~ Mourning Wood
Nora Roberts ~ Genuine Lies
Elisabeth Robinson ~ The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Deborah Smith ~ Charming Grace


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Magic & Magicians

Try:
Martyn Bedford ~ The Houdini Girl
Trudi Canavan ~ The Black Magician Trilogy
Michael Chabon ~ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Glen David Gold ~ Carter Beats the Devil
Simon Hawke ~ The Ambivalent Magician
Mercedes Lackey ~ Bedlam Bard Series
A.E. Martin ~ Sinners Never Die
Ann Patchett ~ The Magician's Assistant
Christopher Priest ~ The Prestige
Nora Roberts ~ Honest Illusions / This Magic Moment
Maugham Somerset ~ The Magician
 Ace Starry ~ The Magic Life
James Swain ~ Grift Sense
Paul Theroux ~ Millroy the Magician


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Music

Blues  ~  Classical  ~  Country  ~  Jazz  ~  Rap  ~ Rock 'n Roll

Blues
Try:
Sherman Alexie ~ Reservation Blues
Piers Anthony ~ The Gutbucket Quest
Ace Atkins ~ Nick Travers Mysteries
Linda Barnes ~ Steel Guitar
Andre Dubus ~ Bluesman
Greg Kihn ~ Mojo Hand
Clarence Major ~ Dirty Bird Blues
Walter Mosley ~ RL's Dream
Louise Redd ~ Playing the Bones
Alan Rodgers ~ Bone Music
Summer Wood ~ Arroyo


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Classical
Try:
Bernard Bastable ~ Too many notes, Mr Mozart
Batya Gur ~ Murder Duet
Andrew Bergman ~ Tender is LeVine
Christopher Bram ~ The Notorious Dr. August
Robert Ford ~ The Student Conductor
Janice Galloway ~ Clara
Joyce Hackett ~ Disturbance of the Inner Ear
J.D. Landis ~ Longing
Bonnie Marson ~ Sleeping with Schubert
Mary Montano ~ Loving Mozart
Ann Patchett ~ Bel Canto
Richard Powers ~ The Time of Our Singing
Mark Salzman ~ The Soloist
Vikram Seth ~ Equal Music
Harrison Gradwell Slater ~ NightMusic
Lindsay Townsend ~ Voices in the Dark
Rose Tremain ~ Music and Silence


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Country
Try:
Patrick Allen ~ Literary Nashville
Linda Phillips Ashour ~ Sweet Remedy
Lisa Borders ~ Cloud Cuckoo Land
Kathryn Buckstaff ~ No One Dies in Branson
Donald Davidson ~ The Big Ballad Jamboree
Jason Emmons ~ Cowboy Angst
Bill Fitzhugh ~ Fender Benders
Kinky Friedman ~ The Case of Lone Star
Annie Garrett ~ Angel Flying too Close to the Ground
Kathi Kamen Goldmark ~ And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
Dan Jenkins ~ Baha Oklahoma
J.R. Ripley ~ Tony Kozol Mysteries
M.L. Rose ~ The Road to Eden's Ridge
Sarah Shankman ~ I Still Miss My Man, but My Aim is Getting Better
Bland Simpson ~ Heart of the Country
Lee Smith ~ The Devil's Dream
Donald E. Westlake ~ Baby, Would I Lie?


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Jazz
Try:
James Baldwin ~ Another Country
Charlotte Carter ~ The Ground Beneath her Feet
Stanley Crouch ~ Don't the Moon Look Lonesome
Peter Duchin ~ Blue Moon
Jerrilyn Farmer ~ Perfect Sax
F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Great Gatsby
David Fulmer ~ Chasing the Devil's Tail
Alan Goldsher ~ Jam
Jon Hassler ~ Rookery Blues
Steve Hermanos ~ Strange Jazz
Jon A. Jackson ~ The Man with an Axe
Nathaniel Mackey
Thomas Mallon ~ Bandbox
Adam Mansbach ~ Shackling Water
Paule Marshall ~ The Fisher King
Bill Moody ~ Evan Horne Mysteries
Toni Morrison ~ Jazz
Walter Mosley ~ Devil in a Blue Dress
Albert Murray ~ The Seven League Boots
Patrick Neate ~ Twelve Bar Blues
Michael Ondaatjee ~ Coming Through Slaughter
Bart Schnieder ~ Blue Bossa
Robert Skinner
Laura Mazzuca Toops ~ Hudson Lake
Frederick W. Turner ~ 1929



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Rap

Try:
Delecorta ~ The Rap Factor
Don Bruns ~ Barbados Heat / Jamaica Blue
Alan Dean Foster ~ Son of Spellsinger
Nelson George ~ Seduced
Gar Anthony Haywood ~ All the Lucky Ones are Dead
Kenji Jasper ~ Dakota Grand
Norman Kelley ~ Phat Death
Erica Kennedy ~ Bling
Adam Mansbach ~ The Blackest White Boy in the World
Jean Davis Okimoto ~ Talent Night
Heru Ptah ~ Hip Hop Story




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Rock 'n Roll
Try:
Adam Arlt ~ The Carpet Frogs
Bill Flanagan ~ A & R
Ben Foster ~ Like Hell
P.P. Hartnett ~ Rock N Roll Suicide
Nick Hornby ~ High Fidelity
Dennis Jones ~ Street Fighting Man
Ray Manzarek ~ The Poet in Exile
Jeff Muendel ~ Beer Goggles and Amplifiers
Tom Perrotta ~ The Wishbones
Neal Pollack ~ Never Mind the Pollacks
Kevin Sampson ~ Powder
Lewis Shiner ~ Say Goodbye
Kathleen Strelow ~ Head Case / Whiplash
Louise Wener ~ Goodnight Steve McQueen
Michael Thomas Yahn ~ What I did on my Rock N' Roll Vacation

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Photographers & Photography

Try:
Adam Lloyd Baker ~ New York Graphic
Michael Blair ~ If Looks Could Kill
Anne Charney ~ Rousseau's Garden
Isabel Colegate ~ Winter Journey
Tom Corcoran ~ Alex Rutledge Series
Rex Dancer ~ Bad Girl Blues
Bill Eidson ~ Frames Per Second
Penelope Evans ~ Stewart Park Series
Susan Ford ~ Double Exposure
James W. Hall ~ Body Language
Julie Hecht ~ The Unprofessionals
Helen Humphreys ~ Afterimage
Iris Johansen ~ Dead Aim
Judith Kelman ~ Summer of Storms
Cammie McGovern ~ The Art of Seeing
David Morrell ~ Double Image
Howard Norman ~ The Haunting of L.
Nora Roberts ~ One Summer / Sanctuary
Rachel Seiffert ~ The Dark Room
Jane Shapiro ~ The Dangerous Husband
Paul Theroux ~ Picture Palace
Robert James Waller ~ The Bridges of Madison County

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Poets

Try:
Peggy Ullman Bell ~ Psappha
Saul Bellow ~ Humboldt's Gift
Judith Farr ~ I Never Came to You in White
Penelope Fitzgerald ~ The Blue Flower
David Malouf ~ An Imaginary Life
John May ~ Poe & Fanny
Yi Mun-Yol ~ The Poet
Bette Pesetsky ~ The Late Night Muse
Clay Reynolds ~ Ars Poetica
Carol Shields ~ The Box Garden / Swann
Anita Shreve ~ The Last Time they Met
Janet Vandenburgh ~ The Physics of Sunset
Debra Weinstein ~ Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z.



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Radio

Try:
Petrina Aubol ~ Drive Time
Michael Baisden ~ God's Gift to Women
James Brady ~ Gin Lane
Sandra Brown ~ Hello, Darkness
Steve Brown ~ Radio Secrets
Leigh Clark ~ Shock Radio
Stanley Elkin ~ The Dick Gibson Show
Phil Hardwick ~ Newcomer in New Albany
Paul Hemphill ~ Nobody's Hero
Stephen J. Herman ~ The Sign of Four
Angela Hunt ~ The Pearl
Joyce Krieg ~ Murder Off Mike
Richard A. Lupoff ~ The Red Radio Killer
Graham Marks ~ Radio Radio
Armistead Maupin ~ The Night Listener
Jeanine McMullen ~ The Wind in the Ash Tree
Jonathan Raban ~ Waxwings
Omar Tyree ~ A Do Right Man


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Television

See Also Journalists
See Also TV News

Try:
Beverly Bloomberg ~ The Last Hollywood Romance
Brian Brown ~ TV
Jim Brown ~ 24/7
Joan Collins ~ Infamous
Rick Copp ~ The Actor's Guide to Murder
Jerrilyn Farmer ~ Mumbo Gumbo
Fannie Flagg ~ Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
Eileen Fulton ~ Soap Opera
Dan Jenkins ~ Limo
Joseph T. Klempner ~ Fogbound
Peter Lefcourt ~ The Manhattan Beach Transfer
Sarah Mlynowski ~ As Seen on TV
John Paxson ~ Elvis Live at Five
Jennifer L. O'Connell ~ Bachelorette #1
Bill O'Reilly ~ Those Who Trespass
Mary Ann Reid
Harold Robbins ~ Tycoon
Nora Roberts ~ Private Scandals
Walter D. Wetherell ~ Morning
Curtis White ~ Memories of my Father Watching TV


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Theater

Try:
Christopher Bram ~ Lives of the Circus Animals
Francesca Delbanco ~ Ask me Anything
Bruce Jay Friedman ~ Violencia!
Robert Kaplow ~ Me and Orson Welles
Gaston LeRoux ~ Phantom of the Opera
Judith Michael ~ Acts of Love
Lynn Michaels ~ Return Engagement
Robert Nye ~ The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Grace Tiffany ~ Will
Barry Unsworth ~ Morality Play
Sarah Willis ~ The Rehearsal


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Writers

See Also Poets

Try:
Louis Begley ~ Shipwreck
Amy Belding Brown ~ Mr. Emerson's Wife
Richard Paul Evans ~ A Perfect Day
Kinky Friedman ~ Kill Two Birds and get Stones
George Gissing ~ New Grub Street
Carol Goodman ~ The Seduction of Water
Eliot Greebee ~ By the Time you finish this book, You might be Dead
Martha Grimes ~ Foul Matter
John Irving ~ Widow for One Year
Garrison Keillor ~ Love Me
Jack London ~ Martin Eden
David Markson ~ Vanishing Point
Kate Moses ~ Wintering
Matthew Pearl ~ The Dante Club
Melissa Pritchard ~ Late Bloomer
Arthur Reid ~ The Storyteller
Nora Roberts ~ Brazen Virtue
Christina Schwartz ~ All is Vanity
Carol Shields ~ Unless
Anita Shreve ~ The Last Time They Met
Jinky Willett ~ The Winner of the National Book Award
Meg Wolitzer ~ The Wife
Tobias Wolff ~ Old School

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