Richard Wiley: 8 books

ACCLAIMED WRITER, BOOKSELLER FAVORITE: Richard Wiley has received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Maria Thomas Fiction Award, and Washington State Book Award. He has also been inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Wiley’s most recent novel, Bob Stevenson, was lauded by independent booksellers...

“A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale.” -Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost Child Dr. Ruby Okada meets a charming...

Wiley brings together a variegated cast of characters in one of the last outposts of the American frontier, Alaska, during the gold rush of the 1890s.

It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and sent to fight against American troops in the Philippines....

In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and "opened" Japan to trade with America. As entertainment for the treaty-signing ceremony, Perry brought a white-men-in-black-face minstrel show-and thereby confirmed the widely whispered Japanese belief that trade with the American "barbarians"...

Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smuggling-before she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder. Her investigation in this leads to a succession of people whose lives intertwine and intersect.

The principal of an international school in Africa, American widower Jerry Neal becomes involved with a group of Nigerian dissidents planning a coup, a relationship that leads to his transformation into a hunted rebel

Festival for Three Thousand Maidens is set in the 1960s, the era of war in Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the US; however, neither of these places figure directly in the story, but both reverberate like distant thunder coming ever close to the heartbeat of this story.