by Pat Bean
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 […]
by Pat Bean
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 […]
by Pat Bean
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 […]
by Pat Bean
Linda Hasselstrom’s curiosity about the plants and wildlife that inhabited the South Dakota ranch, which became her home when she was nine years old, began a lifelong habit of note-taking. […]
by Pat Bean
Leslie Tall Manning, who won the 2016 Sarton Award for her young adult fiction book, Upside Down in a Laura Ingalls Town, was in college before the writing bug bit […]
by Pat Bean
Winner of the SCN 2015-16 May Sarton Award in contemporary fiction for A Drop in the Ocean: A Novel, Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in New Zealand […]
