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Lewis Buzbee

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Born

in San Jose, California, The United States

Website

http://www.lewisbuzbee.com

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Children's Books, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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October 2008

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My new novel, Diver, will be in bookstores in March of 2025.

Lewis Buzbee is a fourth generation California native who began writing at the age of 15, after reading the first chapter of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Since then he’s been a dishwasher, a bookseller, a publisher, a caterer, a bartender, and a teacher of writing. He and his wife, the poet Julie Bruck, live with their daughter Maddy in San Francisco, just half a block from Golden Gate Park. His books for adults include The Yellow Lighted Bookshop, Blackboard, Fliegelman’s Desire, After the Gold Rush, and First to Leave Before the Sun.

His first novel for middle grade readers, Steinbeck’s Ghost, was published in 2008 by Feiwel and Friends and was selected for these honors: ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 3,740 ratings · 770 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History 3.82 avg rating — 2,795 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steinbeck's Ghost 3.65 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Goodreads Author), Greg Ruth (Illustrations) 3.60 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bridge of Time 3.45 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom 3.56 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the Gold Rush 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fliegelman's Desire 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First to Leave Before the Sun by Lewis Buzbee (Goodreads Author), Dave Tilton really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudden Gravity by Ruth, Greg (2006) Paperback it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, A History [Large Print edition by Buzbee, Lewis (2012) Paperback it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

tags: books, bookstores

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“How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

tags: ebooks, passion, reading

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“The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

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What should we read for the July Graywolf Press Book Club?

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

3 votes 23.1%

The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry by Charles Simic

3 votes 23.1%

Skirmish: Poems by Dobby Gibson

2 votes 15.4%

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

2 votes 15.4%

Mattaponi Queen: Stories by Belle Boggs

1 vote 7.7%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

1 vote 7.7%

The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

1 vote 7.7%

Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

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To Siberia by Per Petterson

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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland

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Lewis’s Quotes

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: art, books

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“The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years.
Roald Dahl”
― roald dahl

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“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk a bit further, maybe up onto the top of a hill, and you see something else. Then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape really. The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: on-writing-a-book

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