Authors & Editors
Meet the voices behind Trumpet's books, from new work to restored classics. Credits distinguish authors from editors and arrangers. Historical portraits are contemporary house illustrations based on known likenesses where available.
Trumpet authors
Susan Pavan, M.A.Journ.
Publisher and journalist, Susan writes about editorial judgment, media, power, and the formative force of stories. Her Trumpet titles range from children's adventures to business and cultural argument.
Isabella R. Pavan
Isabella wrote Nut Town and the Moonshine Babies as a young novelist and brought a young writer's perspective to faith and virtue in Catholic Poems.
Theresa D'Antonio
Theresa tells the private story behind The Last Don's Mistress, bringing her own recollections of Joe Bonanno, Sr. to a historical memoir.
Classics and restored works
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Florentine writer studies power, reputation, and judgment when political circumstances turn.
Howard Pyle
Pyle retells Arthurian legend with knights, contested loyalties, and the making of a king.
Baltasar Gracián
The Spanish writer’s maxims examine self-command, social judgment, and the art of moving wisely through the world.
Pellegrino Artusi
Artusi’s landmark Italian cookbook brought recipes and domestic food culture into a lasting literary form.
Marcus Aurelius
The Roman emperor’s private reflections confront self-command, duty, and the pressures of power.
Sun Tzu
The ancient strategist traditionally associated with The Art of War examines preparation, deception, terrain, timing, and command.
Aristotle
The ancient philosopher asks how character, habit, and practical judgment shape a flourishing life.
Plutarch
Plutarch places lives from Greece and Rome side by side to test what ambition and power reveal about character.
William Patten, editor
Selected and arranged. Patten’s role is editorial: he selected and arranged tales of chivalry rather than authoring each story.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Soldier, ruler, and prolific writer on war and statecraft, Napoleon’s maxims distill lessons drawn from campaigns and command.
Thomas à Kempis
This Christian devotional writer asks readers to turn from noise and vanity toward humility and inner discipline.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson’s sea adventure tests courage, temptation, and judgment through Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.
Benjamin Franklin
Printer, inventor, civic builder, and statesman, Franklin turned his unfinished life story into a study of habits and ambition.
Carlo Collodi
Collodi’s original puppet tale is stranger and sharper than many adaptations, a story about consequences and becoming human.
Anna Sewell
Sewell gave a horse the narrative voice in a classic that asks readers to think harder about kindness and responsibility.
Andrew Lang
Lang’s account of Joan of Arc draws young readers into a history of courage, conviction, and contested testimony.
G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton turns a detective story inside out in a novel of poets, anarchists, disguise, and metaphysical surprise.
Lewis Carroll
Carroll’s Wonderland turns logic, language, identity, and absurdity into one of the most enduring adventures in children’s literature.
L.M. Montgomery
Montgomery created Anne Shirley, whose imagination, intelligence, and fierce attachment to place transformed a quiet island story into a classic.
Johanna Spyri
Spyri’s mountain story follows Heidi through home, friendship, illness, and the restorative pull of the Alps.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Burnett’s stories of children under pressure return again and again to courage, imagination, dignity, and the possibility of renewal.