![]() ![]() She moved to the United States when she married John Quin-Harkin. Quin-Harkin graduated from the University of London in 1963. She is also author of the Boyfriend Club series for young adults featuring four freshmen girls in Alta Mesa High School (Arizona): Roni, Ginger, Justine, and Karen. She has written three series under this name: one featuring British aristocrat Lady Georgiana ("Georgie") in 1930s England one featuring Irish immigrant Molly Murphy working as a private detective in early 1900s New York City and one featuring a Welsh police constable named Evan Evans. In the 1990s Quin-Harkin began writing mystery novels for adults under the name Rhys Bowen. ![]() In 1981, she wrote one of the first six books with which Bantam launched the Sweet Dreams series. She also worked as a drama teacher and a dance teacher. Janet Quin-Harkin (born 24 September 1941, Bath, Somerset ) is an author best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen.īefore she began writing novels, Quin-Harkin worked in the drama department of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and, later, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, Australia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And some writers helpfully suggested better novels and works of nonfiction about migrants and the border crisis. Other commentators pointed out the problems in a publishing community that could so enthusiastically promote such a flawed novel. 21, the Internet was full of smart commentary that not only delineated the flaws in “American Dirt” but also the deleterious effects of baking mawkish racial stereotypes in sweet nuggets for a largely white, ill-informed audience. Other writers noticed - particularly people of color - and by the time the novel was released on Jan. ![]() She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. It’s a fierce critique, full of insight and anger - the kind of urgency one almost never sees in the pages of the nation’s hand-patting book reviews. Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the 1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies Lydia lives in Acapulco. Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the 1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies, is finally available in paperback. Gurba exposed the novel’s cliches, stereotypes and clumsiness, and then she went after Cummins for appropriating the story of Mexican migrants and exploiting their suffering. ![]() But more than a month ago, long before most of us had heard of this book, Chicana writer Myriam Gurba posted a take-no-prisoners review on a website titled Tropics of Meta. ![]() ![]() ![]() Years after his childhood observances in the hotel lobby, listening to and conversing with Wobblies (IWW laborers), anarchists, conservatives, and many other kinds of urban drifters – Terkel returned to the period through oral histories. Known as a keen listener, Terkel loved to tell and retell his favorite stories. His later book, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. He published numerous books and continued to broadcast about oral history on the radio. Oral history was only then emerging as a professional historical methodology and Terkel became the great popularizer of the field. Gradually, he began recording and writing about his conversations with both noted and “everyday” individuals. Instead, he joined a theater group and later became a radio actor and disc jockey. Although he later completed a law degree at the University of Chicago, Terkel had no intention of practicing law. Between the start of the Great Depression and the early years of the New Deal, the author of this book – Studs Terkel (1912-2008) – was a young man working in his parent’s Chicago boarding hotel. ![]() |