Author Profiles

Ohio has a rich literary heritage as well as some wonderful contemporary authors. Learn more about them here! You can sort by various categories and see who has participated in our annual book festival by using the category search on the left, or search by keyword (including partial author names) by using the search field on the right.

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William Tabac

William L. Tabac is a practicing lawyer and emeritus professor of law at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He has published several law journal articles on a wide range of subjects and written about legal matters for The New York Times Magazine and The Plain Dealer. He was the producer and host of The Law and You, an award-winning Cleveland radio program, and a legal commentator for WKYC-TV.Read More
William L. Tabac is a practicing lawyer and emeritus professor of law at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He has published several law journal articles on a wide range of subjects and written about legal matters for The New York Times Magazine and The Plain Dealer. He was the producer and host of The Law and You, an award-winning Cleveland radio program, and a legal commentator for WKYC-TV.
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Talzoya

Talzoya is a nuclear physicist by education and the author of numerous scientific publications. "Of Lovers, Lonely Hearts, and the Psychotic Spell Called Falling in Love" is the result of both an introspective effort and the learning derived from published works by other experts in relation to the topic of falling in love, ranging from fiction and nonfiction books to peer-reviewed scientific publications.…Read More

Talzoya is a nuclear physicist by education and the author of numerous scientific publications. “Of Lovers, Lonely Hearts, and the Psychotic Spell Called Falling in Love” is the result of both an introspective effort and the learning derived from published works by other experts in relation to the topic of falling in love, ranging from fiction and nonfiction books to peer-reviewed scientific publications. Talzoya takes pride in distilling knowledge from fields as distinct as sexology, biology, biochemistry, evolutionary psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience into a readable format accessible to all, so that we may all benefit from the findings of science.

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Don Tassone

After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone has returned to his creative writing roots. He is the author of a two novels and seven short story collections.  Don and his wife Liz live in Loveland, Ohio. Visit him at https://www.dontassone.com.Read More

After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone has returned to his creative writing roots. He is the author of a two novels and seven short story collections.  Don and his wife Liz live in Loveland, Ohio. Visit him at https://www.dontassone.com.

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Laura Taxel

Laura Taxel is an award-winning journalist and author. At twenty-one, she earned a favorable review in the New York Times. Her most recent book, Cleveland’s West Side Market: 100 Years & Still Cooking, coauthored with Marilou Suszko, was published by the University of Akron Press in 2012. After more than forty years, she is still thrilled to have a career telling stories.Read More

Laura Taxel is an award-winning journalist and author. At twenty-one, she earned a favorable review in the New York Times. Her most recent book, Cleveland’s West Side Market: 100 Years & Still Cooking, coauthored with Marilou Suszko, was published by the University of Akron Press in 2012. After more than forty years, she is still thrilled to have a career telling stories.

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Barney Taxel

Barney Taxel has lived, photographed, taught, and lectured in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1967, when he moved there from New York City, where he was born and raised. In addition to his award winning career as a commercial photographer, Taxel has several photography books to his credit, including The Lake View Cemetery: Photographs From Cleveland’s Historic Landmark, Cleveland’s West Side Market: 100 Years and Still Cooking, and Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens.…Read More

Barney Taxel has lived, photographed, taught, and lectured in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1967, when he moved there from New York City, where he was born and raised. In addition to his award winning career as a commercial photographer, Taxel has several photography books to his credit, including The Lake View Cemetery: Photographs From Cleveland’s Historic Landmark, Cleveland’s West Side Market: 100 Years and Still Cooking, and Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens. For more on Taxel, check out his website at barneytaxel.com.

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Christine Taylor-Butler

A native of Cleveland Ohio, Christine Taylor-Butler is the author of more than eighty books and short stories for children including Rosa Parks (Scholastic), the award winning "Sacred Mountain: Everest" (Lee and Low), and a middle grade science fiction adventure series The Lost Tribes (Move Books). Although she's always wanted to be a writer, Christine was encouraged by her math teacher to try her hand at engineering.…Read More

A native of Cleveland Ohio, Christine Taylor-Butler is the author of more than eighty books and short stories for children including Rosa Parks (Scholastic), the award winning “Sacred Mountain: Everest” (Lee and Low), and a middle grade science fiction adventure series The Lost Tribes (Move Books). Although she’s always wanted to be a writer, Christine was encouraged by her math teacher to try her hand at engineering. As a result, and always an overachiever, Christine holds dual degrees in Civil Engineering and Art & Design from MIT. Still the tug to write was too great. Now she’s known as much for her science writing as her fiction. To learn more visit:

http://www.christinetaylorbutler.com/

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Dylan Taylor-Lehman

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D.M. Testa

A deeply held fascination for events from the past along with a childhood spent sliding across the marble floors of a bank John Dillinger robbed in Bluffton, Ohio provides much of my inspiration for Defending the Dillinger Gang: Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins in the Courtroom.   I have a talent for turning up the facts missed by others and am currently using my investigative skills for the Missing Princes Project sponsored by the Richard III Society.…Read More

A deeply held fascination for events from the past along with a childhood spent

sliding across the marble floors of a bank John Dillinger robbed in Bluffton, Ohio

provides much of my inspiration for Defending the Dillinger Gang: Jessie Levy

and Bess Robbins in the Courtroom.

 

I have a talent for turning up the facts missed by others and am currently using

my investigative skills for the Missing Princes Project sponsored by the Richard

III Society. Over the past years, I’ve provided research for author David C

Greer: God is Merciful-The Colorful Career of John E Egan, Orange Frazer, 2017.

Death Cell Rescue, 2018. Let My People ThriveMemories of Dayton’s Moses,

  1. My research has become the basis for Old Case Files, historical

reenactments of murder trials performed by Dayton History to sell-out audiences in

Dayton, Ohio in 2017, 2018, and 2019 performances.

 

My other activities include docent work at the Susan B Anthony House & Museum

and presentations to local historical societies. I also teach classes on

researching nonfiction and historical fiction for fledgling authors

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Sam Thomas

Sam Thomas has a PhD in history with a focus on Reformation England and recently leaped from the tenure track into a teaching position at a secondary school near Cleveland, Ohio.

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Sam Thomas has a PhD in history with a focus on Reformation England and recently leaped from the tenure track into a teaching position at a secondary school near Cleveland, Ohio.

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Chera Thompson

Chera Thompson was born and raised in California’s San Fernando Valley. She attended Kent State University and has a BS in Journalism from Ohio University and an MS in Adult Education from Buffalo State College. Her career in travel enabled her to see a lot of the world. Her later career, teaching English as a Second Language to adults, brought her much gratification.…Read More

Chera Thompson was born and raised in California’s San Fernando Valley. She attended Kent State University and has a BS in Journalism from Ohio University and an MS in Adult Education from Buffalo State College. Her career in travel enabled her to see a lot of the world. Her later career, teaching English as a Second Language to adults, brought her much gratification. Her fiction has been published in the Los Angeles Review and was selected as a finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest. Other publication credits include Let’s Have Fun Vol. 2, Queen City Flash, and Have a NYC 3. Most recently her non-fiction pieces were published in Pamela Des Barres’s Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin’ Memoir. She lives with her husband and two dogs in a bluff overlooking Lake Erie and enjoys traveling with their two adult children and collecting beach glass. http://www.cherathompson.com https://www.facebook.com/author.cherathompson/ ATimeToWander@gmail.com (We love hearing our readers thoughts and comments)

A TIME TO WANDER

An email exchange between former college lovers take them back to their college years at Kent State, the 1970’s. The Vietnam War is raging. Anti-war rallies hit the breaking point. It was a time of bell bottoms, vinyl, incense, free love, and travel by thumb. Kris and Lena on May 1, 1970 were strangers on two quite different paths, a thrown beer bottle shatters the lives they have known, bringing them together by chance. Lena is attracted to Kris and his live-in-the-moment personality. When he invites her to join him on a winter break hitchhiking trip, she kicks aside her uptight attitude and accepts the adventure. The trip is harrowing at times, comical during others, and poignant as Lena and Kris learn about themselves and each other. The events that shape and seal the fate of their relationship in unpredictable ways is revealed in the authors’ female/male alternating perspectives. Inspired by true events, A TIME TO WANDER is a magical tale of freedom before the future takes hold.

THE WRITER’S BLOCK INTERVIEW ON LA TALK RADIO https://drive.google.com/…/19Ek-y4eViqfn59N_J0Fl4pr1-…/view…

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL PRESS RELEASE

https://www.beaconjournal.com/news/20190627/book-talk-may-1970-events-figure-into-novel-by-kent-state-graduates?template=ampart

Medium.com Book Review https://medium.com/@patpendleton/heady-days-6b19b15badba

5 STAR REVIEW BY READER’S FAVORITE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR https://www.amazon.com/gp/customerreviews/R2ZZV3QL6W0PWH/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1625268750

–Teri Case, Author of TIGER DRIVE and IN THE DOGHOUSE

EXCERPT from A TIME TO WANDER

The cursor hovers over the SEND button. I swivel my chair away from the screen and gaze out the window. Slowly I get up from the desk and head toward the attic. Sitting in a cobwebbed corner is my grandmother’s old steamer trunk she gave me when I left for college. I open the lid and catch the faint scent of patchouli. I rummage through sealing wax, sandalwood incense sticks, and tarot cards. There, lying at the bottom… my college journal. I slide my hand over the time-worn cover and open it up, my heart pounding. Should I be doing this? A photo sticks out from between the pages. A long-haired Kris with wire-rimmed glasses, patched jeans and an army jacket stands holding a cardboard sign with the word “Chicago” scrawled in black magic marker. Next to him, a smiling girl flashes the peace sign. Silver hoop earrings peek out from under her long frizzy hair and even in the faded photo, there’s a shine in her eyes. I remember that girl. And that chance meeting in the middle of all the chaos