First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
In an effort to keep senescence at bay, my first novel was published at 77 and second at 82.
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The ancillary effects of major events have always interested me.
My new novel, Pausing For A Backward Glance, is about the effect the Dreyfus Affaire in fin-de-siecle France had on the iconic figures of French culture––Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, Proust, Debussy, and the effect they had on those events. And how that Affaire roiled the very foundations of French civilization.
Juxtaposing that event with the post-war investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee into our Hollywood icons, the book examines the similarities between those seminal events and how it roiled our own culture.
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