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Did You Know?

by J.M. Northup, posted in Author/Book Spotlight, Biographies & Memoirs, FEATURE, History, Non-Fiction & Educational, Women In History, Women Writers

Kathleen O'Neal Gear & K.S. Jones #DidYouKnow is a Blog Series on www.jmnorthup.com Two amazing American authors are actually sisters! Kathleen O'Neal Gear and K.S Jones are both acclaimed writers.Each has award-winning novels in Historical Fiction though they write in different disciplines.   Kathleen O'Neal Gear https://www.gear-gear.com/authors/kathleen-o-neal-gear Kathleen O'Neal Gear Kathleen has published over 60+ bestsellers as … Continue reading Did You Know?

VERONICA ROTH

by J.M. Northup, posted in Collections, Series, & Box Sets, FEATURE, Series, Teen, Young Adult, & College, Women In History, Women Writers, Young Adult

DID YOU KNOW? #DidYouKnow is a Blog Series on www.jmnorthup.com and www.nornstriad.com   VERONICA ROTH - born August 19, 1988   Readers know that Veronica Roth wrote the Divergent Trilogy, but what most do not know is that she acquired her agent through a writing conference in 2010 and published her first novel, Divergent, in 2011.  They don't … Continue reading VERONICA ROTH

LOIS LOWERY

by J.M. Northup, posted in Women Writers

#DidYouKnow is a Blog Series on http://www.jmnorthup.com and http://www.nornstriad.com Image Source - http://www.midlandsanchor.com/tag/lois-lowry/ Lois Lowry is an American author born in 1937. She has written over thirty novels that range in genre. She has readers of all ages, though her primary audience is elementary school-aged children to young adults. Lois describes her writing on her … Continue reading LOIS LOWERY

TONI MORRISON

by J.M. Northup, posted in Biographies & Memoirs, FEATURE, History, Non-Fiction & Educational, Women Writers

DID YOU KNOW? #DidYouKnow is a Blog Series on www.jmnorthup.com and www.nornstriad.com   CHLOE ANTHONY WOFFORD MORRISON(FEBRUARY 18, 1931 - AUGUST 5, 2019)   This American writer, professor, essayist, and editor made her mark in history as Toni Morrison.  A brilliant woman, she graduated in 1949 with honors from Lorain High School.  In 1953, Toni Morrison graduated from … Continue reading TONI MORRISON

ANNE MCCAFFREY

by J.M. Northup, posted in FEATURE, History, Women Writers

DID YOU KNOW? #DidYouKnow is a Blog Series on www.jmnorthup.com and www.nornstriad.com     ANNE MCCAFFREY (1926 - 2011)   Anne Inez McCaffrey was born in America, but she immigrated to Ireland after her divorce in 1970.  Though she became an Irish Naturalized Citizen, she was named the 22nd Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2005.  … Continue reading ANNE MCCAFFREY