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January 15, 2006 09:50 PM EST -- John Fawcett's journey began on a freezing night in February 1936, riding the blinds of a crack passenger train. It was to change the 16-year-old's life forever. The son of a prosperous ophthalmologist . . . more
August 08, 2007 12:14 PM EDT -- The Portuguese bought Patient Anthony for three hundred milreis, the equivalent at the time of one hundred and fifty dollars, a good price for a slave boy in the backlands. The slaver was Saturnino Rabelo, . . . more
August 08, 2007 01:22 PM EDT -- The sale of the slaves driven from the north of Brazil was concluded and the overseers stepped up to claim their new charges. Suddenly there was a shout and a boy next to Patient Anthony scrambled to . . . more
June 13, 2007 02:06 PM EDT -- Every writer has a favorite review of his or her book, not filled with words of vacuous hype or empty praises but a critical appreciation of the contents that got it right. Plus the fact . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:08 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   . . . more
December 29, 2008 10:10 AM EST -- When I talk to friends about the idea of writing my American novel   "live" on the Internet, their response ranges from "A-mazing!" to an adamant, "I'll never . . . more
June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --                          When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . . more
July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT -- The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . . more
February 19, 2006 11:27 PM EST -- Patient Anthony was eight years old on a day in August 1855 when he learned a terrible lesson. Until then, the dark-skinned mulatto boy had known no shame at being naked and often raced bare-bottomed . . . more
December 16, 2008 09:19 PM EST -- "Tears ran down my cheeks as I remembered a Christmas Day when I was the age of those children." Born on a farm in Nebraska in 1916, Donald Newhouser was one of 250,000 American boys and . . . more
February 20, 2006 09:51 PM EST -- The Portuguese bought Patient Anthony for three hundred milreis, the equivalent at the time of one hundred and fifty dollars, a good price for a slave boy in the backlands. The slaver was Saturnino Rabelo, . . . more
August 08, 2007 12:35 PM EDT -- On the last stage of the journey, one theme dominated the concerns of Patient Anthony and other slaves: the senhor to whom they would be sold. Policarpo was in his late twenties. He'd had two masters . . . more
June 11, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --                                   On my website  . . . more
January 29, 2006 06:14 PM EST -- Arvel "Sunshine" Pearson's grandfather had living quarters behind the railroad station at Spadra, an Ozarks village five miles from Clarksville, Arkansas.  Arvel's father died before . . . more
August 12, 2008 02:17 PM EDT -- Over the years, I've received many wonderful letters and e-mails from readers of my novel, Brazil. These excerpts are from ten of my favorites, words of appreciation that make my epic literary . . . more
September 26, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --   In 1929, James San Jule's father was a successful businessman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. San Jule graduated from Tulsa Central High School and had been accepted at Amherst college in Massachusetts, . . . more
June 11, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --   My mother, Hester Johanna Maria - “Joey” - Uys, was seven when the Anglo-Boer war erupted on the South African veld. When Joey was alive, I spoke with her for many hours about . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:16 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:25 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   This  unique . . . more
December 06, 2007 05:58 PM EST -- I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.   This  unique . . . more
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