Born: 1930 Ohio connection: Resident Athens Wayne Dodd, son of Homer D. and Maggie M. (Potts) Dodd, was born in 1930 in Clarita, Oklahoma. Dodd served in the United States Navy on submarines from 1948 to 1952 and was part of an elite group logging over a thousand dives. According to Dodd, his submarine was the …
Read More Wayne DoddBorn: 1962 Ohio connection: Former Resident Athens Elizabeth Caroline Dodd was born in March 20, 1962 in Boulder, Colorado. She was raised in southeast Ohio having moved to Athens in 1968 when her father, Wayne Dodd accepted a teaching position at Ohio University. Dodd graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in 1983, with a double major …
Read More Dodd, ElizabethBorn: 1954 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland Lynda was born to Oliver, an engineer, and Shirley (Peterson), a teacher, in 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor’s degree (1979) and her Master’s degree (1982) from the University of Washington, Seattle. She married business executive Wesley Lemmon in 1989 they have one son. Durrant has penned historical young …
Read More Durrant, LyndaBorn: 1940 Ohio connection: Resident Kent Zee Edgell was born Zelma Inez Tucker in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize) on October 21, 1940. She is the oldest child of Clive Tucker, an import-export worker and Veronica Walker Tucker a homemaker and poet. Edgell and her siblings were raised in during the country’s difficult economic times …
Read More Zee EdgellIt’s November, which means people the world over are putting pen to paper and fixing fingers to keyboards, as they take up the challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Every writer needs a place to write, a space that brings forth inspiration. What better place than a wonderfully …
Read More Write in the Window of Appletree Books and Enter Appletree’s NaNoWriMo Writing Contest!“Your Speculative Fiction: From Concept to Elevator Pitch” Free Workshop with Linda Robertson Saturday, November 10, 2018 Bellflower Hall 102, 11421 Bellflower Ave. | 1:00 to 3:30 Only 20 Participants/ Must Pre-register Send your 1 page fantasy/speculative fiction novel concept with your registration to writershouse@case.edu. Come and join the conversation with author Linda Robertson. She’ll be …
Read More A CWRU’s Writers House Event: November 10, 2018The American Library Association has announced six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the United States. The awards were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for …
Read More Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Non-Fiction 2019 ShortlistNovember is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and for many people it means writing, writing, and more writing, until they have written 50,000 words of a novel by the end of November. Now in its 20th year, NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write a new/original work in 30 days—between 12:00 a.m. November 1 and 11:59 p.m. November 30. It’s …
Read More November is National Novel Writing MonthPoetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest that is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. The program is administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Poetry Out Loud encourages students to learn about poetry through …
Read More 2018-2019 Poetry Out Loud: Ohio Registration Deadline is December 1, 2018In preparation for National Novel Writing Month in November, the Literature Department/Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library hosted a workshop for writers. Local author Nancy Christie provided insights drawn from her personal experience and information offered in her award-winning book Rut-Busting Book for Writers. The day was sunny and the turnout was warm as those …
Read More “Rut-Busting” Workshop Provided Advice to Writers of All Levels