Sentence examples for engaging author from inspiring English sources

Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon, and Ann Patchett are among the six writers in the running for Most Engaging Author at the first-ever Indies Choice Book Awards.

This arresting opening to "Waiting for Sunrise," a tantalizing, fast-paced spy novel by the prolific William Boyd, reminded me of the first book I read by this curiously engaging author, roughly 20 years ago.

We engaged Skira Rizzoli, and Stefan Sagmeister to design it, and invited three thoughtful and engaging authors, Adam D. Weinberg, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, James Lingwood, co-director of Artangel in London and Jen Mergel, Beal Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to contribute essays.

By being engaging, authors build a following, and ultimately, increase their book sales.

In this interview, the ever-engaging author of The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology, discusses the work of Nelly, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, among others as he ponders the distinction between commercial and socially conscious Hip Hop.

An engaging, ambitious author takes his shot at the cityness of New York in this short, dense tour de force of shifting voices and points of view in a town that changes faster than its inhabitants can follow.

As well as telling an engaging story, the author displays a sure-footed knowledge of the period.

"The writing is playful and engaging" and the author's "intelligence provides sparkle as well as promise," Myla Goldberg wrote here in 2000.

It's funny but the novel is most engaging when the author takes a back seat and lets his characters provide the comedy.

Now Colson Whitehead, the engaging and ambitious author of "The Intuitionist" and "John Henry Days," has made his own X-ray of the city, a book that seeks to get under the skin of the urban experience without resorting to anecdotes or mere data.

Perhaps what made Wayne Dyer so very popular was that while he was a passionate and engaging speaker and author, and wrote and spoke about spiritual ideals, he was also very human.