In her first year of medical school, Margaret Nowaczyk, author of this year’s Sarton Award winner for Memoir, was taught to always consider common diseases before the rare. “‘If you hear […]
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An Interview with Sallie Weissinger, Author of Yes, Again: (Mis)adventures of a Wishful Thinker
Sallie Weissinger’s book, Yes, Again: (Mis)adventures of a Wishful Thinker, started as a journal that kept growing until it finally reached a true fairytale ending. Once the Gilda-winning author decided […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Marita Golden, Author of The Strong Black Woman
The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Marita Golden is the 2021 Winner of SCN’s Sarton Award for Nonfiction. To be […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Kathleen Williams Renk, author of Vindicated: A Life of Mary Shelley
Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Historical Fiction Award Kathleen Williams Renk says her goal as a writer is to bring the stories of women to life, especially stories that haven’t […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Barbara Linn Probst, author of The Sound Between the Notes
Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Contemporary Fiction Award Author Barbara Linn Probst sees her Sarton Award-winning book, The Sound Between the Notes, as encouragement for readers to embrace everything they […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Susan J. Tweit
While award-winning writer and plant biologist Susan J. Twiet’s book Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying is about the death of a beloved husband, the author […]
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