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November 7, 2008

Meet the real Larry Doyle

We didn't want folks at Saturday's Baltimore Writers Conference to be hunting for a yellow, pear-shaped cartoon character as they tried to track down keynote speaker Larry Doyle for an autograph.

So here's a photo of Doyle, a former Simpsons writer/producer whose novel I Love You, Beth Cooper won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Doyle's holding his award, presented last month in New York. And thanks to the Read Streeters who helped Doyle figure out the theme of his speech.

The Thurber Award news release noted that Doyle is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and has a monthly column in Esquire. I Love You, Beth Cooper, loosely based on his teen years in suburban Chicago, was adapted for a movie starring Hayden Panettiere.

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.