Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
On Saturday June 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., I sold and autographed my books at the Reading Rocks in Rockford Festival. I brought my award-winning book for children about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale), and…
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In 1999, I went to a writers’ conference where one editor claimed that books for children must have the child hero or heroine alone completely solve the problems raised. I was astounded by this narrow-minded claim, which would nullify the…
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Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990) is a re-evaluation of British drama criticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Heller demonstrates that the British romantics’ bias against the staging of Shakespearean tragedy is…
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