Author Lisa Grunwald Favorite Books of All Time

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TRENDING NEWS ENTERTAINME NT FOOD & DRINK PETS SHOPPING HEAL THY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MOREe One Book Author Lisa Grunwald Can’t Wait for Her Kids to *Finally* Read Author Lisa Grunwald on her latest, her faves and a giant anthology she adores. MICHAEL GILTZ • APR 19, 2024 Author Lisa Grunwa ld, whose latest novel is The Evolution Of Annabel Craig, talks about her favorite books of all time, including the 1000-page anthology her father gave her when Grunwald was just 12 years old and the book she can’t get her own kids to read. More than 30 years into her career, Grunwald is enjoying her biggest success yet with novels, thanks to the bestseller status of the romantic Time After Time. Her newest work is The Evolution Of Annabel Craig. It's set during the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial held in Dayton Tennes see. The protagonist Annabel nds herself questioning her faith, her marriage and her life. “We're living in a time in this country that is so divided,” says Grunwald. “I enjoy writing historical ction and I wanted to nd another time in American life where things seemed as divided. I thought about the Vietnam War. And I thought no, no, I don't want to go there. And then I thought about the Civil War. And I also thought, I can't; It's too, too huge. Related: Best-Selling Author Stacy Schi Shares Seven Favorite Books “Then I remembered Inherit the Wind, this fabulous play and later movie, which I had seen I don't know how many times. When I started this book, I thought it was that simple. There were the good guys who believed in science and education and enlightenment and modern ways. And then there were the bad guys who believed in this very narrow view of the world with prayer in the courtroom and God in the classroom. "I quickly learned from reading a lot of history and a lot of newspaper clippings, and really as many books as I could get my hands on about the trial that of course, it wasn't that simple. It's probably never that simple.” One constant, one thing that is simple is a love of books. “I remember lying in bed at night, and looking at books before I knew how to read, but I knew what the vowels were,” says Grunwald. “And pretending I knew what I was reading just because I knew what vowels were is an interesting approach.” Here is Grunwald on some of her favorite books of all time. One in particular is the book she can't wait for her adult children to get to, nally. They read constantly but she's pushed it on them so often it's become almost a point of pride for them not to read it. Don't tell them, but she's left a note at the back of her own copy for whichever one nally gets to the end. Author Lisa Grunwald’s 5 Favorite Books of All Time Babar e Elephant by Jean de Brunho ($19.99; Random House Books For Younger Readers) Like so many, Grunwald’s earliest reading memories are beloved picture books. “My late father would object to this strenuously, but Babar reminded me of him,” says Grunwald, whose father, Henry Grunwald, was a diplomat and editor-in-chief of Time Inc. “The wonderful suits! And the fact that he was an elephant, you know, didn't really factor in. I just felt that Babar was a striver and always going to interesting places and doing interesting things. I love the Madeline books, but my sister’s given name is Madeline , so she was really the Madeline person. But as a younger sister, I would get to read what she was reading, too. So those were probably my two most favorite. Well, I'd throw in Curious George as well. Because how could you not like a monkey who is getting into trouble and being protected by a man with a big yellow hat?” Babar The Elephant by Jean de Brunho ($19.99; Random House Books For Younger Readers Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Harriet e Spy by Louise Fitzhugh “Honestly, the one book that I read over and over again was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L ’Engle. Well, there were three” says Grunwald. “There was Harriet the Spy. I loved Harriet. She's a city girl. She's a tomboy. She has a notebook that she's always writing in. She has adventures. And actually [my sister] Mandy and I at one point dressed up like Harriet the Spy in a sweatshirt with a hood and went o with our notebook s for an adventure. And, unfortunately, the farthest we got was sneak ing under the metal bars of the back alley of the apartment house where we grew up, where we discovered lots of garbage and nothing else. Somehow that was our big adventure as our Harriet the Spy characters. I read that over and over again. And I read From The Mixed- Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the story of a brother and sister who go to the Museum of Art and live there. Which is not unlike [my novel] Time After Time, where my main character lives in Grand Central Terminal. Also, my best friend growing up–Sally Prager–got to star in the movie that was made from it with none other than Ingrid Bergman playing the part of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. So that was a perennial source of joy. And also, of course, jealousy." Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh ($8.99; Yearling) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger “The rst books I read that were adult books were all Salinger books,” says Grunwald. “Everyone read Catcher in the Rye and if you're an aspiring writer–which I kind of think I always was–you immediately start writing as Holden Cauleld, which is mortifying to look back on. I think I've long since burned those pages. But Franny and Zooey denitely blew my socks o because it was nuts. It was complicated. It was brilliant. It was so incredibly vivid. The medicine chest in that bathroom, where Bessie Glass insists on having a conversation with her son, even though he's in the bathtub. And the whole Glass family. So from that I went on to Seymour and Raise High The Roof Beam and I lived inside that family and that imagination.” It was perhaps inevitable she would identify so closely with those books. “I remember my father at our wedding toasting us and saying that we were a Glassian family,” says Grunwald. “But then he had edited an anthology of essays about Salinger. So it was baked into our family from a very early time in every way. There was a rite of passage to start reading Saling er.” Franny and Zooey by J.D. Saling er ($9.99; Little, Brown and Company) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Celebrate Passover With 13 Of The Best Books About The Holiday e Oxford Book Of American Poetry edited by David Lehman “My favorite book ever given to me was The Oxford Book of American Verse,” says Grunwald of the anthology now titled The Oxford Book Of American Poetry. “I was an aspiring poet since I was ten and my father never really considered age as a factor in reading material. He gave me this book when I was I think 12. There was a bookstore on Fifth Avenue called Doubleda y and I remember him coming with this book wrapped in Doubleday pap er and giving it to me, I think, for my birthday. I devoured the poetry that was in this very–I still have it–this very thick but manag eable , probably 1000-page or more anthology of poems. It was by my beds ide kind of forever. It started with Beowulf and ended with whatever was considered modern then, which was probably Robert Lowell, or something like that, which now if anyone is taking a poetry class is considered classic, but at the time was avant-garde.” Grunwald’s neighbor was the writer Jerzy Kosi ń ski of Being There fame, who also encouraged Grunwald’s writing aspirations. “He really was a marvelous encourager of my poetry,” says Grunwald. “He used to send me envelopes with his address on them and stamps and called himself the PD for the Poetry Depot and asked me to send him whatever I had just written. He was the rst person other than my father and mother to say, you know, you can really write and keep at it. And that was life changing.” The Oxford Book Of American Poetry edited by David Lehman ($37.99; Oxford University Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e Great Bridge by David McCullough Though a bestselling writer of ction, Grunwald also works on anthologies with her husband Stephen J. Adler. They produce works of history like the hugely popular Letters Of The Century: America 1900-1999. So it’s no surprise Grunwald also loves narrative nonction. “In terms of history, straight up history?” says Grunwald when asked about her favorites. “The Great Bridge, David McCullough's story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. I have recommended it to my children so many times that it has become a standing joke. I did write them a note at the end on the last page of [my copy] of the book. It's a little bit morbid on my part, but I gured at some point, these books will become their books. And maybe, maybe, maybe someday they will actually read this. And so on the last page of the book I've written ‘I told you, so.’ It's just such a brilliant history.” The Great Bridge by David McCullough ($23; Simon & Schuster) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e One Book Actor Je Daniels Says Scarred Him For Life Read MoreCourtesy of Random House, author photo © Stephen J. 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Author Lisa Grunwald Favorite Books of All Time

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