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		Author Biography - Real Kids Real Adventures Books and TV Show - real life adventures for kids by author Deborah Morris ^Votes:0 About the Author DEBORAH MORRIS [1956-]. One of America's leading writers of real-life dramas, Morris has authored over 140 feature magazine articles and 15 books, including Trapped in a Cave! A True Story (Broadman & Holman/1994); the Middle Reader book series, Real Kids, Real Adventures (Berkley/1997-1999; Adventure Ink/2000); and the upcoming Young Adult series Teens 911 (HCI/Fall 2002). Her work has been translated into as many as ten languages and featured in Reader's Digest, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Outdoor Life, Guideposts , and a host of other national and international publications. She has been quoted extensively in other book-length works: Cause of Death: A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder & Forensic Medicine (Writer's Digest Books/1992); Drive The Point Home (Monarch Pu Read More Go to Site


		Ecology Hall of Fame: John Muir Biography ^Votes:0 Ecology Hall of Fame John Muir 1838-1914 Ecology Hall of Fame \| Muir \| Biography \| Extracts \| Appreciation \| Bibliography \| Web Links \| John Muir & I A Brief Biography In the spring of 1868, a young man came to Yosemite and changed the world. Muir had just turned 30 that year. His first 11 years were spent in Dunbar, Scotland. The next 11 he spent in the backwoods of Wisconsin, working through the daylight hours, clearing the forest, holding a plow to a straight furrow behind a team of oxen, digging wells through hard bedrock, and taking an adult's part in subduing wild nature. Years later, in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth , he stressed the rigours of his childhood, but he seemed to feel that his strenuous years in Wisconsin prepared him well for his later wilderness ramblings. He also Read More Go to Site

		Joegrey Redirect ^Votes:0 Welcome from Shirley Murphy! My site has moved to www.joegrey.com If your browser does not take you there in 10 seconds, click above. Be sure to set a new bookmark! Free counters provided by Honesty.com . Read More Go to Site

		John Muir Exhibit ^Votes:0 Welcome to the John Muir Exhibit! The John Muir Exhibit features the life and legacy of John Muir: naturalist, writer, conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club . Who was John Muir? John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist. He has been called "The Father of our National Parks," "Wilderness Prophet," and "Citizen of the Universe." He once described himself more humorously, and perhaps most accurately, as, a "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc. !!!!" As a wilderness explorer, he is renowned for his exciting adventures in California's Sierra Nevada, among Alaska's glaciers, and world wide travels in search of nature's beauty. As a writer, he taught the people of his time and ours the importance of Read More Go to Site

		KC's Norman Mailer Page ^Votes:0 Photo Credit: Picks And Pans Norman Mailer His Life And Works Background Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, N.J. Mailer grew up in Brooklyn and began attending Harvard University in 1939, it was while at university that he became interested in writing, he published his first story when he was 18. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1943. Drafted into the army in 1944, he served in the Philippines, as a rifleman in a reconnaissance outfit with the Twelfth Armoured Cavalry regiment from Texas until 1946. Just before enrolling in the Sorbonne, in Paris, he wrote The Naked and the Dead(1948) based on his personal experiences in World War II, it was both a critical and commercial success and hailed by many as one of the finest American novels to co Read More Go to Site

		Papers of Drusilla Modjeska (1946- ) - MS 8320 ^Votes:0 search \| about \| find a collection \| copyright \| contact us \| help MS 8320 Papers of Drusilla Modjeska (1946- ) Scope and Content Note Biographical Note Series List Series Description Box List Scope and Content Note Papers 1959-94 3.22m (20 boxes) Series 1-5, 7 Closed until 20 years after the death of the donor. Series 6, 8-14 Available for reference. Drusilla Modjeska presented the first two instalments of her papers to the National Library in April 1991 and June 1992 under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme. Further addition was made in 1995. The collection includes correspondence, financial papers, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, drafts of Women writers: a study in Australian cultural history, 1920-1939 (1979), Exiles at home: Australian women writers 1925-1945 (1981), The poem Read More Go to Site

		The Cormac McCarthy Home Pages: Official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society ^Votes:0 Home Works Biography Resources Forum Journal Society Join Conferences Bookshop Contact Friday, July 20, 2007 Happy Birthday Today, July 20, is Cormac McCarthy's 74th birthday. Happy Birthday, Mr. McCarthy. Best wishes. posted by mp 7/20/2007 Monday, July 16, 2007 McCarthy Signs Two-Book Deal On July 14, The New York Times reported that Knopf has signed a new book deal with Cormac McCarthy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "We don?t know anything about them," Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, said. "But two new novels by Cormac McCarthy is good enough for us." This is the first we've officially heard about these two books, and at this point this blurb represents the sum total of what we know about them. posted by mp 7/16/2007 Saturday, June 16, 2007 No Country for Old Men Trailer D Read More Go to Site

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