In The Author's Voice

In this edition of In The Author's Voice, Shelley Fraser Mickle talks about her new book White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America.

The book takes a closer look at the life and times of Alice Roosevelt – the eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt once said that "I can do one of two things – I can be president of the United States or I can control my daughter, Alice. I cannot possibly do both." In that vein, Shelley Fraser Mickle chronicles Alice's larger than life persona.

On this edition of In the Author's Voice, if you're still searching for that perfect Christmas gift, lifestyle expert Meaghan Murphy talks about what's trending for holiday gift giving and encourages shoppers to buy local.

Murphy is also an advocate of the wholesale online marketplace, Faire, that she says provides local retailers the opportunity to stock the latest trends in holiday gift giving - including a blast from the past.

MotorTrend is out with it's annual Car of the Year for 2024. WSIU's Jeff Williams talks with MotorTrend Senior Editor Aaron Gold about this year's top pick, the Toyota Prius.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice we talk with Vicki Cody about her new memoir "Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home."

For more than 30-years Vicki Cody was the anchor for her military family while her husband Dick, an Army Commander and ultimately four-star general, lead an Apache helicopter unit. Her new book looks at the life of a military family through the eyes of a wife and mother as well as those of a father and pilot in combat. It tells their story through the letters they exchanged while he was deployed during the first Gulf War .

In this edition of In The Author's Voice, author Chad Boudreaux talks about his new novel "Scavenger Hunt."

A thriller set within the power structure of Washington, DC, we follow Justice Department attorney Blake Hudson as he's drawn into an elite counter terrorism group of intelligence and military operatives. But, will he become the hunter or the hunted. We talk with Boudreaux about the book and his connection with SIU.

Mario and Jane grew up in Indiana, went to college, got married, and had four children. Mario was a lawyer and later a judge. What is exceptional about their story is that both Mario and Jane were blind since childhood.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice, Mary Pieroni Harper talks about her parents story in her new book, The Sound of Her Voice: My Blind Parents’ Story. It's part biography; part memoir.

Every day we hear something about the state of the economy, the status of jobs, the rate of inflation, interest rates, and near record consumer debt. What does it mean and what should we understand? Richard Vague is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and a former Secretary of Banking and Securities for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Vague has written a new book, "The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis." He recently talked about the book with WSIU's Jeff Williams for this edition of In The Author's Voice.

In this day and age you can find just about any kind of information on the internet - no matter how far-fetched. And truth can often be stranger than fiction. With that in mind, BBC TV Host and author Dan Schreiber has written a new book that should make for an interesting and entertaining summer read.

On this edition of In The Author's Voice, Schreiber talks about his new book "The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird."

May was Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month. With that as a backdrop, a new historical fiction novel released during May, tells the story of two Japanese Americans and their tumultuous path to survive childhood after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the incarceration camps in the U-S, and the bombing of Hiroshima.

For this edition of In The Author's Voice, WSIU's Jeff Williams recently talks with authors
Kent and Constance Matsumoto about their new novel Of White Ashes. The novel is based on the experiences of Kent's parents.

Of White Ashes is out now from Apprentice House Press.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice, Ambassador Meryl Frank talks about her new family memoir "Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust."

WSIU's Jeff Williams recently talked with Frank about the book and her journey to honor the memory of the Holocaust and a beloved family member.