Smallwood: What is your educational background? Turner: I earned successive degrees from the Universities of California, Berkeley, Michigan, and then Washington, respectively. I majored in English and minored in Native […]
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Denise David is a teacher, writer, scholar, wife, mother, and grandmother, but before any of that she was born the daughter of a British war bride, and that has made […]
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A historian’s low opinion of early feminist poet Emilia Bassano Lanyer, who may have been the dark lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets, prompted Charlene Ball to research and write about the […]
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The childhood of Phyllis Still, whose book, Defiance at Indian Creek, won Story Circle Network’s Sarton Award for Young Adult Fiction, was full of clues that a writer lay in […]
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It wasn’t writing, but travel that early on infatuated Christine Volker, whose mystery, Venetian Blood, won Story Circle Network’s 2017 Sarton Award for Contemporary Fiction. “I distinctly remember, when I […]
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