Brad Hooper is the Adult Books Editor at Booklist, the flagship review journal of the American Library Association, which is published in Chicago. He has a Bachelor of Arts in European History and a Master of Science in Library Science, both degrees from Eastern Illinois University. He has also done graduate work in European History at the University of Illinois. He regularly speaks about reviewing and has conducted review-writing workshops for public librarians across the country. He is the author of The Short Story Readers’ Advisory (ALA Editions, 2000); The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist (Praeger, 2005); Read On…Historical Fiction, Libraries Unlimited (2006); and The Fiction of Alice Munro (Praeger, 2008.)