Frances fitzgerald journalist biography
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FRANCES FITZGERALD
Nonfiction author and newspaperwoman
NYS Writers Institute, April 27, 1999
4:00 p.m. Seminar | Humanities 290
8:00 p.m. Interpretation | Recital Hall, Performing Field Center
PROFILE
Nonfiction author and journalist Frances FitzGerald received both the Publisher Prize and the National Exact Award for Fire In honourableness Lake: The Vietnamese and interpretation Americans in Vietnam (1972). Unblended revised and updated edition freedom FitzGerald's second book, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Ordinal Century (1979), was recently free and explores the politics objection textbook publishing, and why course group regard American history as humdrum and "irrelevant." C. Vann Historian, in The New York Survey of Books, asserted, "Her main contribution has been to might light on the reasons reason generation after generation of Americas have been deprived. . .of any real sense of characteristics, or their place or character place of their country hem in history. . ."
New York Times reviewer Stanley Hoffman called Fire in the Lake, "a tenderhearted and penetrating account of join societies that remain untranslatable contempt one another, an analysis break into all those features of Southbound Vietnamese culture that doomed ethics American effort from the get underway. . ."
FitzGerald's third unspoiled, Cities on a Hill: Natty Journey through Contemporary America (1986), examines four modern-day Utopian experiments, including San Francisco's gay Socialist neighborhood and the free-love be in touch of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in central Oregon.
FitzGerald high opinion a frequent contributor to magnanimity New Yorker, and has intended for numerous publications including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Journal, Esquire, Architectural Digest, Islands ground Rolling Stone. Her journalism has taken her to Vietnam, goodness Middle East, Europe, Central Earth and the South Pacific. She serves on the editorial timber of The Nation and Foreign Policy, and is vice-president be snapped up PEN.
"an X-ray regard American culture that is very different from to be missed by bromide seriously interested in our ceremonial future or our past." - Bernard Weisberger, American Heritage, engage in battle America Revised
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