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What do I, as an author myself, want young readers to absorb when they read a biography — particularly a biography of someone who is not a famous historic figure
With The Labors of Hercules Beal, Gary Schmidt brings back an old character, Danny Hupfer (first seen as a youth in The Wednesday Wars) to teach a few things to new character Hercules Beal, who lives on the far end of Cape Cod with his older brother, Achilles, after the death of their parents. Just twenty-six days after his retirement from college teaching, I talked to Gary about the labors of both Hercules and himself.
After twelve years as publisher of Christy Ottaviano Books at Macmillan, Christy has moved the imprint over to Hachette/Little, Brown. What does she have in store?