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- Amy Alcott
Amy Alcott is a professional female golf player. Amy joined the LPGA on January 1, 1975 at age 20. Amy was born February 22, 1956. Amy is 5'6 has black hair. She spends most of her off-time as a short order cook at the Butterfly Bakery. Through 11 years playing in the tour she won only one tour. - New England -- People
New England is what it is because of its people, from Massasoit to Paul Revere, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to John F Kennedy, from P T Barnum to Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickenson. You'll find reminders of them everywhere. - Geraldine Brooks -- Jo March
Geraldine Brooks is the author of two novels: March (Viking, 2005), which imagines a year at war for the absent father in Louisa May Alcott´s Little Women, and Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (Viking, 2001). In addition, she has published two works of nonfiction: Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Knopf, 1995) and Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal´s Journey from Down Under to All Over (Doubleday, 1998). Brooks ... contributes occasionally to publications such as the New Yorker. - Gillian Armstrong -- Directors
Twenty years ago, director Gillian Armstrong, made a film about three ordinary teenage friends growing up in the seventies. 'Not Fourteen Again' completes the circle: there are now three teenage daughters to add their perspective to that of their mothers'. A fascinating and emotional journey through the real dramas of life. - Edgar Allan Poe -- Americas
Edgar Allan Poe belonged to the first, struggling generation of professional writers in America. Ralph Waldo Emerson had his private wealth, Nathaniel Hawthorne had his job at the Customs House, and Louisa May Alcott had her best seller, but these were rare comforts. In any case, they were not for one as dramatic, driven and self-doomed as Poe. - Geraldine Brooks -- Middle East
Geraldine Brooks published her first book, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, based on her work as a journalist in the Middle East, in 1994. Three years later, Brooks recalled her Australian childhood -- and the pen-pal network that introduced her to the wider world -- in Foreign Correspondence. She became a novelist with Year of Wonders (2001), a vivid and accomplished tale set in a plague-stricken English village in 1666. Her second work of fiction, March, a powerful imagining of the Civil War experience of the father whose absence haunts Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2006. - John Cromwell -- New York
Find Books by John Cromwell - Buy used, new, rare and out-of-print books by john cromwell. Millions of books from thousands of booksellers worldwide – all in one, easy-to-search Web site. Find it at Alibris. - Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is the author of Year of Wonders and the non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and Foreign Correspondence:A Penpal's Journey from Down Under to All Over. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their son. Interview courtesy of HarperCollinsPublishers. - Winona Ryder -- Films
Oscar nominated shoplifter Winona Ryder was a good cash customer of the Film Yard, an independent video store at 2308 Union Street. Ryder is a Minnesota native and sometimes Bay Area resident. The Film Yard's Union Street store shut down in July, 2002. At this writing in November, 2002, the location housed a maternity consignment shop. - Geraldine Brooks -- Sarajevo Haggadah
Crossing time and cultures, Geraldine Brooks takes the reader through the life of a very special book, the Sarajevo Haggadah. Her writing is crisp and embroidered with multi-layered mystery that engages the reader through the survival of a unique and beautiful manuscript. Her characters' vividly imagined lives are often studies in courage as Brooks brings watershed periods of local and Jewish history to light with deep respect and sensitivity. The book is well-researched with sufficient detail to enlighten without slowing a quick-paced read. Fortunately Ms. Brooks, a WSJ reporter assigned to the Bosnian War of the 1990's, didn't succumb to the standard media prejudice: 'They're tribal people who have been killing each other for thousands of years. They'll never stop.' This reporter saw human qualities beyond ethnic stereotyping and prejudice during her time in Sarajevo.