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Editorial Director Dave Wilson worked on The Dangerous Book for Boys in tandem with a producer known as Dan G. Russ, clearly a pen name (he’s never met “Dan” in person). Dave was an editor for 10 years at the Akron Beacon Journal and eight years at the (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Sun News. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.  He lives in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, with his wife, DeAnne, and son Matthew, 12, and daughter Lindsey, 8.  Dan, on the other hand, merely looks good in kraft paper.

A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.