authors in Menlo Park

Tempe Javitz works on book about her rancher grandmother’s photographs

It's Tempe Javitz's goal to make her grandmother, Jessamine Spear Johnson, famous — again. "She was famous in her middle years," she says, further explaining

by Linda Hubbard
on June 24, 2022

Author and consultant Robbie Kellman Baxter talks about “the membership economy”

Growing up first in the Allied Arts neighborhood of Menlo Park and then in Atherton, Robbie Kellman Baxter couldn't envision working here. "I wasn't technical,

by Linda Hubbard
on April 26, 2017

Author Donia Bijan turns to fiction in a novel set in her native Iran

As Donia Bijan explains it, she carried around "the story in my head" for years before starting to write her first novel, The Last Days of

by Linda Hubbard
on April 18, 2017

Psychologists Lori and Tom Plante co-author book to help college students graduate with honor

Menlo Park residents Lori and Tom Plante have enjoyed separate careers in the field of psychology, she as a clinician with a practice downtown and he as a

by Linda Hubbard
on March 16, 2017

In new book, Menlo Park resident Alexander Kugushev ponders why American education lags

Editor's note: Menlo Park resident, author and publisher Alexander Kugushev has written a new book We're 34th in Education - It's Our Culture. Here he offers

by Alexander Kugushev
on March 8, 2017

Author Jeanne DuPrau reflects on best-selling Ember series

While author Jeanne DuPrau views herself as "always a writer," she didn't write fiction until she was in her 40s and wrote the best-selling The City

by Linda Hubbard
on September 7, 2016

Author Kirby Wilkins turns to non-fiction in book Life with Jake

For much of his life, author Kirby Wilkins has lived on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park in the home his mother first moved into in

by Linda Hubbard
on June 30, 2016

Deany Brady pens second memoir, Higher than Yonder Mountain

To kids and parents at Laurel Elementary School where she volunteers, Deany Brady is Grandma Brady. When she stops in once a week at Whole Foods

by Linda Hubbard
on April 14, 2016

Frances Reneau draws on her experience as ranger for MPOSD in her first book, Rangerchick

When Menlo Park resident Frances Reneau graduated from Stanford with a degree in Germanic Linguistics, she viewed herself as a studious and academic person. That

by Linda Hubbard
on April 21, 2015

Novelist Lalita Tademy pens the story of a once-enslaved man and his granddaughter set in Oklahoma

Best-selling author Lalita Tademy is the first to admit that she's not one of those novelists who can churn out a book once a year — or

by Linda Hubbard
on September 21, 2014