One of the voices behind audio books

Bernadette Dunne
Bernadette Dunne has recorded more than 250 titles since her reading of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha(Books on Tape, 1998) helped put her on the map. She's voiced the works of everyone from actress Katharine Hepburn (Me: Stories of My Life) to National Book Award winner Richard Powers (The Echo Maker), for publishers including BBC Audiobooks America and Christian Audio. Her Audie Award-nominated narration of Elizabeth Cohen's The House on Beartown Road (Blackstone Audio) was an L Best Audiobook of 2004. Librarian Ophelia Lo (Canton Public Library, MI) caught up with the Audie Award nominee for LJ's Behind the Mike series.

How did you get your start as an audiobook narrator? Audiobook legend Flo Gibson gave me a job monitoring readers in her studio in the Washington, DC, area [in the late 1990s]. I had a golden opportunity to observe and learn from the best: Flo, Kate Reading, Grover Gardner, and Michael Russotto. » » »