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Eleanor Catton spent more time adapting her book "The Luminaries" for TV than she did writing it in the first place. She details the process for The Times.
'Birnam Wood,' the third novel by Eleanor Catton, trades in the sprawl of 'The Luminaries,' which won the Booker Prize, for a thriller that's far too neat.
Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary honor, on Tuesday. At 28, she's the youngest writer to be awarded the prize.
Eleanor Catton wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize. The 45th Man Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded Tuesday to Eleanor Catton for "The Luminaries." Set in 1860s New Zealand during the Gold Rush ...
Eleanor Catton’s “Birnam Wood,” set in New Zealand in 2017, is titled after an eponymous band of guerrilla gardeners who grow crops on random patches of land with the aim of keeping Earth ...
Like that master storyteller of Lincoln biography, Carl Sandburg, historian Bruce Catton passed his boyhood in a small Midwestern town, where he was entranced by the hypnotic yarns spun by elderly ...