Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Sharon Kay Penman

New York Times, 1/29/2021

Starting with her first book, “The Sunne in Splendour” (1982), about King Richard III, Ms. Penman loaded her novels with material she gathered from years of research, both on the ground in Britain and in the stacks at the University of Pennsylvania library, near her home. Before the internet made finding obscure history books easy, she would scour secondhand shops in England, shipping home boxes and boxes of texts, amassing a library of several thousand volumes. 

Many of her books topped 1,000 pages, but she developed an extensive fan base, and several of her later works made The New York Times’s best-seller list.

The 48 member libraries of LINKcat

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2021

Mary Catherine Bateson.  (1/26)

Kim Chernin.  (1/10)

Christina Crosby.  (1/31)

Eric Jerome Dickey.  (1/9)

Scott Donaldson.  (1/11)

James R. Flynn.  (1/30)

Ved Mehta.  (1/12)

Deborah Rhode.  (1//28)

Charles Saunders.  (2/4)

Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)

2020
Patricia Bosworth.  (4/6)

Ben Bova.  (12/17)
Mary Higgins Clark.  (2/4)
Clive Cussler.  (2/29)

Betty Dodson  (11/11)
David Graeber.  (9/6)
Shirley Ann Grau.  (8/11)
Pete Hamill.  (8/6)

Shere Hite. (9/13)
A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)
Roger Kahn.  (2/15)

Randall Kenan.  (9/29)

John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)
Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)

Barry Lopez.  (12/29)

Alison Lurie.  (12/7)
Sylvia Jukes Morris.  (1/20)
Charlers Portis.  (2/19)

Julia Reed.  (9/8)
John Rothchild.  (1/22)
Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)
George Steiner.  (2/6)

Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)
Charles Webb.  (6/30)
Elizabeth Wurtzel.  (1/11)

2019
Warren Adler.  (4/23)
Kate Braverman.  (10/28)
Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)
Ernest J. Gaines.  (11/8)
Dan Jenkins.  (3/10)
Judith Krantz.  (6/27)
Paule Marshall.  (8/27)
Robert K. Massie.  (12/4)
Martin Mayer.  (8/3)
Wright Morris.  (7/25)
Toni Morrison.  (8/12)
Anthony Price.  (6/17)
James I. Robertson.  (11/20)
Anne Rivers Siddons.  (9/19)
John Simon.  (12/1)
Sol Stein.  (9/30)
Brad Watson.  (8/2)
Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)
Herman Wouk.  (5/20)
Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970.  (6/18)

2018
Neal Thompson.  (6/17)
Barbara Kafka.  (6/8)
Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries?  (6/2)

2017
Aline Countess of Romanones.  (12/17)
Kit Reed.  (10/1)
Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library.  (9/8)

2016
E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015
Gunter Grass (1927-2015).  (4/15)

2014
Thomas Berger  (1924-2014).  (7/23)
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)  (4/8)

2013
Barbara Branden.  (12/26)