She is the founder of the Biden Breast Health Initiative non-profit organization, co-founded the Book Buddies program, is active in Delaware Boots on the Ground, and co-founded Joining Forces with First Lady Michelle Obama.
He co-authored The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published with his current wife, and co-founded The Book Doctors, who have toured the country from Cape Cod to Rural Alaska, Hollywood to Brooklyn, Wichita to Washington helping writers.
He co-authored The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published with his current wife, and co-founded The Book Doctors, who have toured the country from Cape Cod to Rural Alaska, Hollywood to Brooklyn, Wichita to Washington helping countless writers get published.
"It's very much a teacher-led kind of movement in that teachers are looking for ways to engage their children, and they're finding some of that in comic books," said Michael Bitz, who founded the Comic Book Project as a graduate student and is now its director.
In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the New American Library.
To collect material for this quirky, calendrical approach to literary history, Nissley — a former editor at Amazon, where he founded the Omnivoracious book blog — scoured novels, biographies, literary journals, and authors' correspondence for events and anecdotes connected to specific dates.
That success has brought authority, and authority combines with Mosley's sterling discipline to allow him time to work for a cause he has founded: the Open Book Committee, a project of the PEN American Center, of which he is a vice-president.
Leading books activist Koko Kalango launched her Get Nigeria Reading Again campaign in 2005 and founded the Port Harcourt Book Festival three years later, with the idea of getting "people back to the good old-fashioned habit of reading books to improve our society," she told Nigeria's Vanguard.
Leading books activist Koko Kalango launched her Get Nigeria Reading Again campaign in 2005 and founded the Port Harcourt Book Festival three years later, with the idea of getting "people back to the good old-fashioned habit of reading books to improve our society," she told Nigeria's Vanguard _
A dedicated and admired physician and entrepreneur, he founded The Little Blue Book, MDHub.com, and QuikMD.
Mr. Fitzgerald also founded the Quality Paperback Book Club, which helped make paperbacks "a respectable reading tool," said Lorraine Shanley, an industry consultant and former colleague.
