ABOUT BRET WITTER My first memory of loving books was finding the Hardy Boys series at my local library in Huntsville, Alabama when I was six or seven years old. My life has been changed by many books since – Absalom, Absalom; The Power Broker; In the Dream House; Voices from Chernobyl – but reading three Hardy Boys books in two days, then going back and getting three more is how it started. I’ve spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to write. In high school, I wrote (terrible) poetry. At Duke University, I studied literature. After a short stint at a local bookstore, I moved to New York City and got a job as an assistant in the subsidiary rights department at Avon Books. It was just about the lowest job in publishing, but it paid $14,000 a year and I got to work with books. I switched to the editorial department eighteen months later and spent the next ten years editing and creating hundreds of books and series. In my spare time, I also wrote or collaborated on a couple books under various pseudonyms, including a New York Times bestseller (uncredited) in 2003. In 2006, I left my job as editorial director at HCI to become a full-time writer. My first proposal was for a book with Spencer, Iowa library director Vicki Myron. It was about the library’s recently deceased cat, Dewey. The day after we sold it to Grand Central, the deal was slammed in The New York Times as signifying everything wrong with mainstream publishing—a cat! In Iowa! Who cares!—but when it was published a year later, Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, spent six months in the top five, and sold more than a million copies. It made the list of the year’s top fifteen bestselling nonfiction hardcovers in both 2008 and 2009. Since then, I have written six more New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 bestselling The Monuments Men, which was turned into a movie by George Clooney. While I can and do write in many genres and styles, my books tend to focus on ordinary people. My primary theme, I suppose, is the nobility of the ordinary: the joy that comes with working hard for personal goals, even if relatively few ever notice. The heroes of my stories don’t become rich or famous; instead, they find happiness and purpose. I gravitate toward those stories, I think, because I’m a middle-class kid from Alabama who finally found a way to spend m life doing what I love. Those stories are my story, too. I live in Decatur, Georgia, with my wife and two children.  ABOUT REMEMBER US“An intimate, moving look at the war that extracts deep meaning from the carnage and loss.” – Publishers Weekly What happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for you are no longer alive to thank? Remember Us, by Robert Edsel—#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men—begins in the pre-dawn hours of Hitler’s invasion of Western Europe on May 10, 1940, when his forces rolled into the small rural province of Limburg in the Netherlands shattering more than 100 years of peace. Their freedom gone, the Dutch lived through four-and-a-half years of occupation until American forces reached Limburg in September 1944, the last portion of Western Europe liberated by the Allies before their advance on Nazi Germany slammed to a halt. Like The Monuments Men, Remember Us is an ensemble piece that follows twelve main characters over a six-year span, zeroing in on ordinary people including Frieda van Schäik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; and Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama for yet another indignity—digging graves. Drawing on never-before-seen letters, diaries, and other historical records, Edsel shows the painful price of freedom, on the battlefields and inside American homes. In this rich, dramatic, and suspenseful story, he captures both the horrors of war and the transcendent power of gratitude, showing the extraordinary measures the Dutch have taken to thank their liberators. Remember Us is exactly the book we need—a reminder that grief is universal, that humanity knows no national or racial boundaries, and that we all want to be remembered, somehow, someway, by somebody.

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