Scott DeVeaux is the author of The Birth of Bebop (1997) and Jazz in America: Who's Listening? (1995), and the coeditor of The Music of James Scott (1992). He is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, aged nine, is an aspiring writer and the daughter of Scott DeVeaux. She also shares her favorite books with us. Scott DeVeaux's Recommendations: Music Books: The Recording Angel, Evan Eisenberg Music of the Common Tongue, Christopher Small The History of the Blues, Francis Davis Lush Life, David Hajdu Stomping the Blues, Albert Murray Jazz Among the Discourses, ed. Krin Gabbard A Miles Davis Reader, ed. Bill Kirchner Origins of the Popular Style, Peter van der Merwe Non-Fiction: All God's Children, Fox Butterfield The Promised Land, Nicholas Lemann The Age of Extremes, Eric Hobsbawm Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux Fiction: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Toole White Man's Grave, Richard Dooling Orlando, Virginia Woolf White Noise, Don DeLillo The End of the World News, Anthony Burgess Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux's Recommendations: My 14 favorite books in order of how I like them are below. I am 9 years old. Maybe I will write something like them someday! Enjoy! Eleanor of Aquitaine: An Independent Spirit in a Medieval World, by Polly Schoyer Brooks Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada, by Francis Waber Catherine Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman The Time Garden, by Edward Eager Queen Zixi of Ix, by L. Frank Baum The Well Wishers, by Edward Eager Betsy and the Great World, by Maud Hart Lovelace Letters From a Slave Girl, by Mary Lyons Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien Return to the Writers Read List

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