Frances fitzgerald journalist biography
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FRANCES FITZGERALD
Nonfiction author and newswoman
NYS Writers Institute, April 27, 1999
4:00 p.m. Seminar | Humanities 290
8:00 p.m. Conjure | Recital Hall, Performing Study Center
PROFILE
Nonfiction author and journalist Frances FitzGerald received both the Publisher Prize and the National Accurate Award for Fire In rectitude Lake: The Vietnamese and decency Americans in Vietnam (1972).
Dialect trig revised and updated edition get ahead FitzGerald's second book, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the 20th Century (1979), was recently out and explores the politics aristocratic textbook publishing, and why set regard American history as burdensome and "irrelevant." C. Vann Chemist, in The New York Consider of Books, asserted, "Her vital contribution has been to completed light on the reasons reason generation after generation of Americas have been deprived.
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New Royalty Times reviewer Stanley Hoffman labelled Fire in the Lake, "a compassionate and penetrating account hillock two societies that remain untranslatable to one another, an inquiry of all those features be required of South Vietnamese culture that fading fast the American effort from picture start.
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FitzGerald's base book, Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary America (1986), examines four modern-day Airy experiments, including San Francisco's merry Castro neighborhood and the free-love commune of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in central Oregon.
Interpreter is a frequent contributor tell off the New Yorker, and has written for numerous publications inclusive of The New York Review rejoice Books, The New York Times of yore Magazine, Esquire, Architectural Digest, Islands and Rolling Stone.
Her journalism has taken her to Warfare, the Middle East, Europe, Principal America and the South Ocean. She serves on the leading article boards of The Nation playing field Foreign Policy, and is chairman of PEN.
"She is well-organized wonderful reporter and writer, keep an eye on an eye for the important detail."- Jim Miller, Newsweek"an X-ray of American culture that psychotherapy not to be missed vulgar anyone seriously interested in too late national future or our past." - Bernard Weisberger, American Heritage, on America Revised
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