A.B. Bourne worked closely with Danny Lewin at Akamai Technologies on strategic deals with IBM and Oracle, and managed Akamai's IPO, raising $234 million in 1999. The author graduated from Yale College and the University of Michigan Law School and practiced law in Boston. She lives in Massachusetts with her family, consulting for start-up technology companies and writing The Second Secret of Edwin Hoff.
Read a guest blog by A.B. Bourne, "3 Secrets—The Alchemy of Inventing Realistic Characters," published on InkSpot.
Read an article by A.B. Bourne, "Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary," published on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network
What I'm reading now:
61 Hours, by Lee Child. Love the Jack Reacher series.
Recent Favorites:
Thrillers
• The Bricklayer, by Noah Boyd
• The Girl who Played with Fire—my favorite of Stieg Larsson's trilogy
Non-Fiction
• Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age
of Permanent Drought, by James Workman. Can't hear a report about Texas
summer weather without thinking of this book.
• Guiding Lights: How to Mentor and Find Life's Purpose, by Eric Liu.
Inspirational!!
Humor
• David Sedaris, David Sedaris, David Sedaris. Funny, funny writer! I love all of
his books, most recently, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Sweetest refresher courses in story structure, setting high stakes and character definition:
• Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
• Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, A.A. Milne, David Benedictus
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
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