Did you receive this post via email? Please click on the title to read in your browser. Tuesday, I introduced you to military biographer Robert Coram, told you about his background, and discussed his approach to writing. Today–a bit about his biographies, the three he’s published and the one still in draft stage. Boyd: The […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Did you receive this post via email? Please click on the title to read in your browser. “I have the best job in the world,” says Robert Coram. “I get to write about American heroes.” His theme is particularly timely for this week of Memorial Day, May 26th. The hardest thing for Coram is […]
Dypaloh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting. This is how N. Scott Momaday, an author of Kiowa/Cherokee heritage, opens his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn, published in 1968. His beautifully crafted book is credited with […]
Receiving this post via email? Please click on the title to read it in your browser. Thinking back over the (many) decades of my reading life, I decided it might be fun to take a look at my reading history and compile a list of favorite books. As my average number of books per year […]
Before the American coasts were joined by a railroad, there was still magic in the world. OK, maybe not dragons and stuff, but the Far West – the “grand social experiment” in California – was a fascinating caldron of pioneers from the East, luckless prospectors, Latino gentry, and Chinese immigrants. They were financed by […]
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