Keith Donohue's first novel, The Stolen Child, was a New York Times bestseller. For many years a ghostwriter, he now works at a federal governmental agency in Washington, D.C. He has published short stories and literary criticism, most recently an introduction to the collected works of Flann O'Brien. Donohue holds a Ph.D. in English from the Catholic University of America.
If I had a secret [to easy success] right now, wouldn't you want it? If I had a shortcut, wouldn't you want it? I think that's certainly why all of us, or many of us, are driven to read books about .. self-help.
At age seven, a boy named Henry disappears, kidnapped not far from home by a band of fairies or hobgoblins, who send a lookalike impostor to replace him, in Keith Donohue's debut novel called "The Stolen Child." Donohue maintains a modern-day myth that recalls fairy tales going back hundreds of generations.
If I had a secret [to easy success] right now, wouldn't you want it? If I had a shortcut, wouldn't you want it? I think that's certainly why all of us, or many of us, are driven to read books about .. self-help. 
