Mary Mann Hamilton
Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-1937) was a pioneer of the Mississippi Delta.
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Charmian Carr
Charmian Carr (born December 27, 1942) is an American actress and singer. She is mainly known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music where she starred with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, and Kym Karath.
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Carr was born Charmian Farnon in Chicago, Illinois. She is the second child of vaudeville actress Rita Oehman and musician Brian Farnon, who named her Charmian after a character from Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. She has two sisters, one older and one younger. Her sisters are Shannon Farnon and Darleen Carr.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
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She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood. These included fry cook, sex worker, nightclub performer, Porgy and Bess cast member, Southern Christian Leadership -
Jodee Blanco
Founder and CEO of The Blanco Group.
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Survivor, expert and activist Jodee Blanco is one of the country’s pre-eminent voices on the subject of school bullying.
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Erma Bombeck
Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life humorously, in the second half of the 20th century.
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For 31 years since 1965, Erma Bombeck published 4,000 newspaper articles. Already in the 1970s, her witty columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of 900 newspapers of USA and Canada. Besides, the majority of her 15 books became instant best sellers. -
Jennifer Traig
Jennifer Traig is a frequent contributor to McSweeney's and The Forward. She is the author of a series of young adult books and a humor book, JUDAIKITSCH. She has a Ph.D. in literature and lives in San Francisco.
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Julia Scheeres
I was born in Lafayette, Indiana and now live in the Bay Area. I'm the author of the memoir "Jesus Land," which was a New York Times and London Times bestseller and of the award-winning "A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown," which is being developed into a feature film. I teach memoir and creative nonfiction, online and in San Francisco, and work with private clients on book projects. For more information, please see: www.juliascheeres.com
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
People know American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for her novel The Yearling (1938).
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This author lived in rural Florida with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. -
Charmian Carr
Charmian Carr (born December 27, 1942) is an American actress and singer. She is mainly known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music where she starred with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, and Kym Karath.
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Carr was born Charmian Farnon in Chicago, Illinois. She is the second child of vaudeville actress Rita Oehman and musician Brian Farnon, who named her Charmian after a character from Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. She has two sisters, one older and one younger. Her sisters are Shannon Farnon and Darleen Carr.
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Madeleine K. Albright
Czechoslovakian-born American diplomat Madeleine Korbel Albright, the first such woman, appointed secretary of state of United States in 1997, served in that position until 2001.
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Bill Clinton, president, nominated her, born Marie Jana Korbelová, on 5 December 1996, the Senate unanimously confirmed her, 99-0. People swore her in office on 23 January 1997.
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Elizabeth McCracken
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Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author. She is married to the novelist Edward Carey, with whom she has two children - August George Carey Harvey and Matilda Libby Mary Harvey. An earlier child died before birth, an experience which formed the basis for McCracken's memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.
McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, and holds a degree in library science from Simmons College, a women's college in Boston. McCracken currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she is an artist-in-res -
Richard Grant
Richard Grant is a freelance British travel writer based in Arizona. He was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy and then moved to London. He went to school in Hammersmith and received a history degree from University College, London. After graduation he worked as a security guard, a janitor, a house painter and a club DJ before moving to America where he lived a nomadic life in the American West, eventually settling in Tucson, Arizona, as a base from which to travel. He supported himself by writing articles for Men's Journal, Esquire and Details, among others.
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His third book Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011) is about Grant's travels in harrowing situations around East Africa, including an attempt at the first de -
Mende Nazer
”Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.
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Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her “Yebit,” or “black slave.” She called them “master.” She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own.
Normally, Mende’s story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she -
Pamela Paul
Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at The Times. She also hosts the weekly Book Review podcast. She is the author of six books, How to Raise a Reader, co-authored with Maria Russo, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, By the Book, Parenting, Inc., Pornified, and The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. Prior to joining the Times, Paul was a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Vogue. Her next book, Rectangle Time, comes out in February. She and her family live in New York.
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Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was an English singer and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her UK top 5 single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States.
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Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. Her 1965 debut studio album Marianne Faithfull, released simultaneously with her studio album Come My Way, was a huge success and was followed by further albums on Decca Records. From 1966 to 1970 she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was enhanced by roles in films, including I'll Never Forg -
Yvonne Korshak
Yvonne Korshak received her BA with honors from Harvard, and her MA in Classics and Classical Archaeology and PhD in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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As a professor at Adelphi University, she has taught Art History and topics in the Humanities, served as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Studies, and Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. She has written and spoken widely on topics of Greek art and archaeology and on European painting, particularly on van Gogh, Courbet, and David. Her blog, “Let’s Talk Off-Broadway,” focuses on art and theater.
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Elen Ghulam
Author of Spoonful Chronicles: To unlock the secret to her destiny one woman must remember everything that she has eaten. Elen is an Iraqi-Canadian who believes her dance shoe is mightier than a cruise missile.
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Abigail Carter
Abigail Carter wrote The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow’s Transformation (HCI, 2008) as a form of catharsis after her husband’s death in the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Her work has also appeared in SELF magazine, Reader’s Digest Canada, MSN.com and MORE.com and she maintains blogs at www.abigailcarter.com and www.alchemyofloss.com. Abigail is also the co-Founder of Writer.ly, an online marketplace where writers can find the people they need to publish successfully. She can be found on Facebook and on Twitter (@abigailcarter).
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Amy Asbury
Amy Asbury is the author of five books: Once Upon The Eighties, The Sunset Strip Diaries, Confetti Covered Quicksand, Valley Girl and Fuzzie Wuzzie. She is influenced by Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and Judy Blume. She also draws inspiration from film (Martin Scorsese, Sophia Coppola, and P.T. Anderson are favorites), creative design, interesting photography, and beautiful animation.
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Amy is a collector of vintage books, retro toys, and eighties candy packages. She loves bookstores, libraries, old-time ice cream parlors and antique shops, and is most at home in the classic Hollywood restaurants or the beaches of her hometown in Los Angeles. She is married to an awesome New-Yorker and has one bookish son. -
Anne Michaud
Anne Michaud is the politics editor for Crain's NY Business and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She previously wrote a nationally syndicated op-ed column for Newsday and was twice named "Columnist of the Year," by the New York News Publishers Association and the New York State Associated Press Association. She has won more than 25 writing and reporting awards.
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"Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives" (Ogunquit Press, March 2017) has won multiple national book honors, including in the categories of Women’s Issues and Current Events. A second edition, updated to include Donald and Melania Trump, was published in 2021, along with an e-book, "American Czarina." Details available at annemicha -
Lauren Alexander
Lauren Alexander, the author of CHOICES 86,400 a day and THE CHINABERRY TREE, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois with High Distinction in the English Honors Program before earning a law degree at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Following law practice and a federal court clerkship, she returned to her literary roots. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and memories of a legendary dog named Noether and a cat named Cat.
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Jessica Pan
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Half-Chinese American living in London. Graduate of Brown University. Big fan of dogs, coconut smoothies and traveling.
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My second book, SORRY I'M LATE, I DIDN'T WANT TO COME came out in May 2019 and has sold 100,000+ copies to date.
It's about the year I spent: talking to strangers, performing stand-up comedy, travelling solo, trying out improv, going on friend dates and doing a bunch of extrovert-y things. I interview brilliant people throughout the book who guide me through these nightmares.
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Barbara Donsky
Winner Silver Medal Readers' Favorite 2016
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Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards 2016
Born in the South Bronx, two words long synonymous with urban decay, Barbara Donsky, the author of Veronica's Grave, went on to discover a passion for all things French. Go figure!
A Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Hunter College, she earned an MS from C. W. Post, Long Island University and an EdD from Hofstra University.
Publications include a doctoral dissertation Trends in Written Composition in Elementary Schools in the United States, 1890 -1960. Articles in educational journals including "Writing as Praxis" and "Trends in Elementary Writing Instruction". And a short story--"The Trouble with Harry"--published in the Naples Review in Florida.
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Anna Quinn
Anna Quinn is the author of ANGELINE, (Blackstone Publishing, 2023), and THE NIGHT CHILD, (Blackstone, 2018). Her writing has appeared in Psychology Today, Brevity, Medium, Writers’ Digest, Washington 129 Anthology, Alone Together Anthology and more. Anna is the founder and former owner of The Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, WA.
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Aimee Cabo Nikolov
Aimee Cabo Nikolov is a Cuban American who has lived most of her life in Miami. She is a speaker, trained nurse and the president and owner of IMIC, Inc, a medical research company in Palmetto Bay.
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Aimee is also the host of "The Cure with Aimee Cabo", a nationally syndicated live radio show, and later a podcast. https://godisthecure.com
She lives with her husband, Dr. Boris Nikolov, and two of her children, Sean and Michelle. This is her first book. The book won several awards - Pinnacle, NYC Big book award, Feathered Quill Gold/1st place.
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Robert Reid
Robert (Bob) Reid grew up in Scotland’s beautiful border country. Hawick was home until it was time to go to university in Edinburgh. A degree and a PhD in Chemistry followed. It was in Edinburgh that Bob met and married Phyllis. Work opportunities took them south, and their son Simon was born in Cheshire and their daughter Charis some years later in Swindon. Highworth, near Swindon, became home in 1982. It still is home and has become a special place to Bob and Phyllis.
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Bob’s career of forty years was initially in technical management, then general management and business consulting. Work generally took priority over creativity. Semi-retirement in early 2018 created the time, family and friends the encouragement, for Bob to develop his wri -
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre grew up in rural Southeastern Montana, surrounded by sheep and cattle ranches, before coming to California with her family at age 16. She holds a doctorate in multicultural education from the University of San Francisco, and a master’s degree in social welfare from UC Berkeley. She worked as a bilingual school psychologist and school administrator in public education for 32 years.
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Barbara Donsky
Winner Silver Medal Readers' Favorite 2016
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Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards 2016
Born in the South Bronx, two words long synonymous with urban decay, Barbara Donsky, the author of Veronica's Grave, went on to discover a passion for all things French. Go figure!
A Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Hunter College, she earned an MS from C. W. Post, Long Island University and an EdD from Hofstra University.
Publications include a doctoral dissertation Trends in Written Composition in Elementary Schools in the United States, 1890 -1960. Articles in educational journals including "Writing as Praxis" and "Trends in Elementary Writing Instruction". And a short story--"The Trouble with Harry"--published in the Naples Review in Florida.
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Amy Asbury
Amy Asbury is the author of five books: Once Upon The Eighties, The Sunset Strip Diaries, Confetti Covered Quicksand, Valley Girl and Fuzzie Wuzzie. She is influenced by Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and Judy Blume. She also draws inspiration from film (Martin Scorsese, Sophia Coppola, and P.T. Anderson are favorites), creative design, interesting photography, and beautiful animation.
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Amy is a collector of vintage books, retro toys, and eighties candy packages. She loves bookstores, libraries, old-time ice cream parlors and antique shops, and is most at home in the classic Hollywood restaurants or the beaches of her hometown in Los Angeles. She is married to an awesome New-Yorker and has one bookish son. -
Lauren Alexander
Lauren Alexander, the author of CHOICES 86,400 a day and THE CHINABERRY TREE, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois with High Distinction in the English Honors Program before earning a law degree at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Following law practice and a federal court clerkship, she returned to her literary roots. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and memories of a legendary dog named Noether and a cat named Cat.
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Jessica Pan
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Half-Chinese American living in London. Graduate of Brown University. Big fan of dogs, coconut smoothies and traveling.
To keep up with my new writing, please subscribe to my newsletter on Substack: It'll Be Fun, They Said by Jess Pan
https://jesspan.substack.com/
My second book, SORRY I'M LATE, I DIDN'T WANT TO COME came out in May 2019 and has sold 100,000+ copies to date.
It's about the year I spent: talking to strangers, performing stand-up comedy, travelling solo, trying out improv, going on friend dates and doing a bunch of extrovert-y things. I interview brilliant people throughout the book who guide me through these nightmares.
It's available here in the USA:
https://www.amazon.com/Sorry-Late-Did...
And here in the UK:
https://www.amazon -
Anna Quinn
Anna Quinn is the author of ANGELINE, (Blackstone Publishing, 2023), and THE NIGHT CHILD, (Blackstone, 2018). Her writing has appeared in Psychology Today, Brevity, Medium, Writers’ Digest, Washington 129 Anthology, Alone Together Anthology and more. Anna is the founder and former owner of The Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, WA.
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Order ANGELINE and THE NIGHT CHILD anywhere you love to buy your books.
Connect with Anna here:
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Jodee Blanco
Founder and CEO of The Blanco Group.
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Survivor, expert and activist Jodee Blanco is one of the country’s pre-eminent voices on the subject of school bullying.
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Lucia Greenhouse
fathermothergod, my coming-of-age memoir about growing up in family informed --and ultimately derailed by-- the little known American-born faith called Christian Science, comes out in paperback on August 28th 2012! Available at your favorite independent bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, TARGET, and as an e-book.
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Sara Tuvel Bernstein
This well-told memoir by the late Bernstein deserves a prominent place in the archive of Holocaust survival stories. Born into a large Jewish Romanian family, Bernstein (1918-83), known then as Seren, left her mountain village at the age of 13 to attend gymnasium in Bucharest. Her independent spirit drove her to leave the anti-Semitic school and become an apprentice to a dressmaker rather than return home
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