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Writers lona
Bell, Professor of English, Williams College, author of Elizabethan
Women and the Poetry of
Courtship studies Shakespeare’s love poetry and poetry of the early modern
age. Ten years of research yielded secrets about the role of women in the
renaissance that give keys to the interactions between men and women today. Jay
Brandon is trained as a writer
and an attorney. While practicing law, he has published more than 10 legal
thrillers which have not only received favorable reviews and wide readership,
but also been optioned by first rate actors and directors for the movies. His
fiction writing allows him to live lives he wouldn’t other experience. James MacGregor Burns Pulitzer
Prize winning Presidential historian, author of twelve outstanding books,
including Leadership, the seminal book in the study of leadership. speaks
with us about his career and his influence on the movement to train and develop
moral and effective leaders in politics, business, and many other endeavors. Nan
Cuba is a writer, teacher, and
community leader. As founder and Executive Director of Gemini Ink she developed
an institution that not only provides high quality classes for writers and
would-be writers, but reaches into the community with its Reader’s Theater
Programs, Writers in the Community Programs, and public lectures. Her own
interest in writers and writing spurred her to create an enduring institution
that enhances the quality of life for the entire community. Susan
Dunn teaches French at Williams
College. Her study of French resulted in a book, Sister Revolutions,
about the French and American revolutions, and from that history she
moved into more modern history and a study of leadership. Her recent book, Three
Roosevelts, Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America, which
she coauthored with James MacGregor Burns, also led her to conclusions about the
nature of leadership and commitment that she shares with her students and our
listeners.
Dr.
Robert Fernea, professor emeritus
from the University of Texas, is an anthropologist whose Ph.D. thesis took him
to remote village in Iraq, to Egypt, where he taught at the American University
in Cairo, and Afghanistan during a period of relative peace in the country.
He has collaborated with his wife, Elizabeth Fernea, on several volumes,
including The Arab World, Forty Years of Change Paulette Jiles
has worn many hats, but the one she seems to like best these days is a cowboy
hat. Paulette spent eight years as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting
Company in a small town in Northern Ontario, which she wrote about in her book
North Spirit. She is an award winning poet, winning the Governor General’s
award for her book Celestial Navigations, and her novel, Enemy Women is
due out shortly, but her pride and passion is training riders and horses. Clara Park has
four children, the youngest of whom, Jessica, is autistic. At the time Jessica
was born the prevailing wisdom was that a neglectful and cold mother caused the
autism. Rather than accepting that wrongheaded thinking, Clara and her husband
David enlisted Jay
Pasachoff introduces people to
astronomy with The Field Guide to the Stars and Planets. He has written 20
books, including the most popular astronomy textbook used in colleges today. He
will go to great lengths to view a solar eclipse, and has conducted expeditions
to the optimum viewing site for the eclipses in Africa, India, Indonesia, South
America, Eastern Europe as well as closer to home. He is on the faculty at
Williams College. Robert Rivard
brings his experience as a war correspondent in Central America during the civil
wars of the eighties back to the newsroom as editor of The San Antonio
Express-News. As a young man a
fascination with news motivated him and continues to do so.
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