"Byatt is a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," Nancy Willard wrote here in 1997.

Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936) is a novelist, a poet, and a children's writer and occasional illustrator.

Nancy Willard, Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories (1974), illus.

Retold by Nancy Willard.

The best Nancy Willard is able to do, given the limitations of the form she's chosen, is give us an elegantly readable tour of heck.

In 2000 our reviewer, Nancy Willard, called this novel "a wrenching love story."

Last year our reviewer, Nancy Willard, called this an "accomplished novel" that "few readers will be able to resist."

In 1998 in these pages, Nancy Willard admired the tale's "intelligence and verbal brio."

Nancy Willard, Things Invisible to See (1985)

By Nancy Willard.