Candice Hooper is a historian, writer, and member of advisory boards for President Lincoln’s Cottage in D.C. and the Ulysses S. and Julia D. Grant Historical Home in Detroit. Her […]
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Meet Charlene Ball
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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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. […]
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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 […]
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