FAMOUS WRITERS FROM ILLINOIS

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Sandra Cisneros

Betty Friedan (1921-2006)

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Patti Smith

SAME CITY, DIFFERENTS STATES

ARCADIA- California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania

FLINT- Michigan, Ohio, Texas

WALNUT GROVE- Alabama, California, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi

WORDS OF WISDOM

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.

~Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1830-1885)

BOOK VS. MOVIE

Whenever a book is put into a movie I have much trepidation that it will be any good. I have been so disappointed when a the movie done on a famous book is very disappointing. Many directors take liberties (too many, in my view) when they do this. They try to put their own spin on the book, instead of just telling the story. This, sometimes is an issue when doing a documentary about a person, group, or organization. I say to myself why can't the directors leave well enough alone. 

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM IDAHO

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Patricia Marcantonio

William Norman Grigg (1963-2017)

Donna Fletcher Crow

WORDS OF WISDOM

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

~Theocritus, Poet 

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

BENTON- Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas

VAIL- Arizona, Colorado

YORK- Alabama, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM HAWAII

Maxine Hong Kingston

Haynani-Kay Trask (1949-2021)

Milton Murayama (1923-2016)

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Lee Cantaluna

Rodney Morales

SURGERY

 I haven't been here because of recent surgery. 

9/11

 

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM GEORGIA

Alice Walker

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Conrad Aiken (1883-1973)

Janisse Ray

James Dickey (1923-1997)

Margaret Mitchell

James Alan McPherson (1943-2016)

Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)

Natasha Twethewey

WORDS OF WISDOM

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

~Mike Birbiglia, Comedian (b. 1978)

QUIRKY, FREAKY CHARACTERS

I like people who are quirky, weird, strange, etc. I'm currently creating characters using every day people who possess an affinity for the unusual. I have an Ivy league young man who frequents porn shops. I have a young woman who dresses in the clothing of superheroines at home. These are just examples. 

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM FLORIDA

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Carl Hiaasen

Elmore Leonard (1925-2013)

Dave Barry

Judy Blume

James Patterson

Tim Dorsey

Kristen Harmel

SUPPORT LABOR

 

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM DELAWARE

Colleen Faulkner

Christopher Castellani

Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)

JoAnn Balingit

Ed Dee

Fleda Brown

Cyrus Cassells