HAGUE, Nora

PERSONAL: Female. Education: New York University, M.F.A.

ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, William Morrow, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.

CAREER: Novelist.

WRITINGS:

Letters from an Age of Reason, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A second novel.

SIDELIGHTS: Nora Hague's first novel, Letters from an Age of Reason, is set in the 1860s. It is the story of two young people living very different lives. Sixteen-year-old Arabella Leeds comes from a wealthy New York family. Aubrey Paxton, a young colored man, is a house servant in New Orleans. When the U.S. Civil War begins Aubrey escapes to New York with plans to board a ship heading for Europe. Once in New York he meets Arabella, and they soon fall in love, which may cause trouble for them both. Library Journal contributor Cynthia Johnson stated, "Well-developed secondary characters and subplots make this debut novel difficult to put down."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July, 2001, Beth Warrell, review of Letters from an Age of Reason, p. 1950.

Library Journal, October 15, 2001, Cynthia Johnson, review of Letters from an Age of Reason, p. 106.

Publishers Weekly, August 6, 2001, review of Letters from an Age of Reason, p. 60.

Washington Post, November 28, 2001, Elizabeth Ward, review of Letters from an Age of Reason, p. C8.

ONLINE

HarperCollins Web site,http://www.harpercollins.com/ (May 14, 2002).

Simon & Schuster Australia Web site,http://www.simonsays.com/ (January 13, 2002).*