Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
A Sprinkle of Dust: A Mother’s Struggle with Loss and Healing is a powerful memoir about a close-knit Arab-American family’s attempt to sustain a young man battling cancer and to recover after his death. Author Mary Saad Assel, a…
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An article about the effect of the coronavirus on various businesses includes my experiences as a writer whose speaking engagements at conferences and elsewhere have been cancelled. This article is now published on the website of CEOblognation. My paragraph is…
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Jane Austen died in 1817 before she could finish her novel The Brothers, later called Sanditon. In January and February, 2020, PBS’s Masterpiece aired Andrew Davies’ 2018 adaptation of Sanditon. This production features superb acting by Rose Williams as Charlotte…
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