Literature
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Figure Skater Gracie Gold Finds Balance at Aston’s IceWorks
Gracie Gold has had success as a 2014 and 2016 U.S. figure skating champion, earning a bronze medal in the team event in 2014, writes Ellen Dunkel for The Philadelphia Inquirer. But her success was built on the pressures of expectations, and Gold, 28, was sometimes an unhealthy perfectionist. For a time, things spiraled out…
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Coatesville Native Now Motivational Speaker, Author After Surviving a Deadly Car Accident
In 2011, Coatesville native Ethan A. Poetic survived a nearly fatal car crash that had left him with numerous injuries, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6ABC. “99 percent chance of death versus 1 percent of life. That means I shouldn’t be here,” Poetic said. Three of five people survived the horrendous accident, Poetic being one…
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Drexel Hill Author Nikki Rineholt Pens Children’s Book on Being Different
A Drexel Hill author wrote his first children’s book, a picture book for parents and children that celebrates being different, being accepted, and being loved, reports Todd Haas for 6abc. Nikki Rineholt, who is autistic, wrote “My Little Me” to show others who feel different and who may be autistic themselves that they are not…
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Author Una Mannion’s Career Started When She Moved to Ireland
Moving to Ireland 30 years ago motivated author Una Mannion, a former Notre Dame Academy student, to start writing. Mannion, a wife and mother of three, is the author of the psychological thrillers A Crooked Tree and Tell Me What I Am. She lives in County Sligo in Ireland, writes Fionnuala Boyle for the Irish…
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Author Kevin Barry O’Connor of Delaware County Explores Irish Ancestry in 2 Novels
Irish American author Kevin Barry O’Connor grew up in a Delaware County neighborhood that was 60 percent Irish and 40 percent Italian in a very Irish-centric house, but he had never gone “100 miles in any direction” until he was an adult, writes Fionnuala Boyle for the Irish Star. As a child, he launched living…
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Holy Family University Welcomes Former Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher
Holy Family University will launch the fourth year of its Distinguished Writers Series when it welcomes former Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher on Oct. 4 at 6:30 PM in the Education and Technology Center Auditorium, located at 9801 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia. The event is free and open to the public. The Distinguished Writers Series is led…
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Lansdowne at Center of Hunt for Secret Nazi Diary
(This article first appeared in DELCO.Today on April 8, 2016.) Robert Wittman, the head of the FBI’s art-crime team in Philadelphia, has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist David Kinney to write The Devil’s Diary – the story of the pair’s hunt for the missing diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a high-ranking Nazi, and the…
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Bookworms Invited to the First-ever Independent Bookstore Crawl
Lovers of books who have a lot of energy can join an independent bookstore crawl Saturday, Aug. 26, by visiting more than two dozen participating bookstores in the Philadelphia area. The crawl includes readings, local author book signings, pop-ups, discounts, and giveaways at the stores, writes Kristin Hunt for Philly Voice. Children’s Book World,…
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Marines Give First-Person Accounts of Fighting in Iraq in New Book
Retired Marine Lt. Col David E. Kelly from Springfield recently published his second volume of interviews with combat Marines deployed to Iraq, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. He was one of two Marine Corps field historians sent there to conduct the interviews, “First Fights in Fallujah” includes interviews with infantrymen, tankers, helicopter crews,…
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There’s a Famous Mexican Poet Buried in Yeadon. How Did He Get There?
There’s a poet so famous that huge cultural institutions in Mexico bear his name, as does an international award for poetry. Gilberto Owen Estrada is one of Mexico’s great 20th Century writers. Yet in nearly 71 years, only a few outside his family knew he was buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Cross Cemetery…
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Villanova Law School Divorce Attorney Brings Real-Life Stories to First Novel
Nancy Perpall, who used to be a critical care nurse, then a divorce lawyer, is now an author with her first novel, “Around Which All Things Bend,” writes Jay Heater for the Observer. She recalls her time transitioning from nurse to attorney when she would commute for three years driving between Allentown and Villanova to…
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Neumann Presents Award for Children’s Literature to Reem Faruqi
Neumann University presented its 2022 Bock Book Award for Children’s Literature to I Can Help, the tale of a young girl who rediscovers her innate kindness after peer pressure stifles her desire to help others. Author Reem Faruqi and illustrator Mikela Prevost accepted the prize online Oct. 26 from their homes in Georgia and Arizona.…
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Aston Teen/Artist Publishes Children’s Book
At only 15 years old, Elle Fox of Aston, Delaware County, is already on her way to a successful creative arts career. This Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (West Chester) student has already written, illustrated, and published a 2022 children’s book, Meatball and Birdie. It’s a story that resonates with Fox. The plot, at its surface,…
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Swarthmore Students, Faculty Weigh In on Massive Decline of English Majors
Swarthmore College is seeing significantly fewer seniors graduating with degrees in English over the last several decades but a growing number of STEM discipline majors, especially computer science, writes Owen Mortner for The Swarthmore Phoenix. In 1992, 62 Swarthmore seniors, nearly 17 percent of the graduating class, had degrees in English literature. Almost 30 years…
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Penn State Brandywine Professor Explores Shadow Work in Book
A Penn State Brandywine adjunct professor has written Shadow Work, a book that helps people access the repressed part of themselves that is often the root cause of internal and external problems, writes Laura Brzyski for Philadelphia Magazine. Danielle Massi, a licensed marriage and family therapist is also the founder of the holistic healing center…
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‘Irishman’ Mobster Frank Sheeran Is Buried in a Delco Cemetery
Martin Scorsese’s latest mob film offering, “The Irishman,” features many Philadelphia area locations that were part of reputed mobster Frank Sheeran’s life. One location, Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, became his final resting place, writes Nick Vadala for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Robert De Niro portrays Darby-raised mobster Frank Sheeran — a former president of Wilmington’s…
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Havertown Dad Pens Book as an Inspiration for Girls
Dario Mescia, the Havertown father of two girls, has written his first children’s book whose central character is an inspirational role model for young girls, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. “Ruby Reindeer and the Magic Antlers” features a young female reindeer named Ruby who is told that only male reindeer have the magic…
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Her 1st Novel at 70 Is All About Rum Raisin and Romance
Harriet Fry, a 1995 alumna of Neumann University, decided it was time to try her hand at fiction writing. After decades of writing non-fiction, Harriet Fry started with a fictional short story that soon took on a life of its own, culminating in the novel Rum Raisin Rendezvous, about a breezy summer romance set in…
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