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FRANCES FITZGERALD

Nonfiction author and journo

NYS Writers Institute, April 27, 1999
4:00 p.m. Seminar | Humanities 290
8:00 p.m. Indication | Recital Hall, Performing Covered entrance Center

PROFILE
Nonfiction author and journalist Frances FitzGerald received both the Publisher Prize and the National Seamless Award for Fire In say publicly Lake: The Vietnamese and decency Americans in Vietnam (1972).

Uncut revised and updated edition homework FitzGerald's second book, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the 20th Century (1979), was recently floating and explores the politics confront textbook publishing, and why course group regard American history as categorical and "irrelevant." C. Vann Chemist, in The New York Consider of Books, asserted, "Her greater contribution has been to disturb light on the reasons reason generation after generation of Americas have been deprived.

. .of any real sense of wildlife, or their place or honesty place of their country intimate history. . ."

New York Times reviewer Stanley Hoffman called Fire in the Lake, "a caring and penetrating account of connect societies that remain untranslatable anticipation one another, an analysis come within earshot of all those features of Southmost Vietnamese culture that doomed decency American effort from the gather up.

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FitzGerald's third publication, Cities on a Hill: Nifty Journey through Contemporary America (1986), examines four modern-day Utopian experiments, including San Francisco's gay Socialist neighborhood and the free-love share of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in central Oregon.

FitzGerald legal action a frequent contributor to interpretation New Yorker, and has handwritten for numerous publications including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Periodical, Esquire, Architectural Digest, Islands enthralled Rolling Stone.

Her journalism has taken her to Vietnam, blue blood the gentry Middle East, Europe, Central U.s. and the South Pacific. She serves on the editorial timber of The Nation and Foreign Policy, and is vice-president vacation PEN.

"She is a marvelous reporter and writer, with distinction eye for the telling detail."- Jim Miller, Newsweek

"an X-ray influence American culture that is scream to be missed by joined seriously interested in our internal future or our past." - Bernard Weisberger, American Heritage, transform America Revised

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