Showing posts with label dedications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dedications. Show all posts

Friday, January 5, 2007

Memoriam: Ann LaPietra

Ann LaPietra
Marshall, Michigan, and fans of John Bellairs lost a friend this week: Ann LaPietra, the owner of the kids' place bookstore in Marshall, died Wednesday, January 3, 2007. She was 73.

Sunday, August 6, 2006

Dedicated Words Which Writers Use

John Bellairs
One of the first things we did when setting out to find people with memories of John when we began this project was identifying those individuals that played such an important part of his life that he dedicated his books to them. Who were they? Old friends from college? Family members? Other authors? People he’d met in since moving to Massachusetts? To cut to the chase...well...yes, some of all of the above.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Memoriam: Elaine Lund

Memoriam
Elaine Lund passed away May 1, 2006.  Elaine (b. 1926) along with her late husband, Bob (1925-1995), founded the Marshall, Michigan landmark, the American Museum of Magic, in 1978.

The Lunds were dedicates of Brad Strickland's The Specter from the Magician's Museum, in which Lewis and Rose Rita visit a similar museum in New Zebedee and stumble upon spells, scrolls, and spiders.

Monday, March 25, 2002

Interview: Ann LaPietra

Ann LaPietra
Ann LaPietra is the owner of the Marshall, Michigan bookstore "the kids' place" and the woman behind the popular John Bellairs Walk, a tour of the sights and sounds of Marshall and how they inspired John’s New Zebedee. We asked Ann about the walk, the city, and John’s enduring popularity.