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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. Point of reference | Recital Hall, Performing Bailiwick Center

PROFILE
Nonfiction author and journalist Frances FitzGerald received both the Publisher Prize and the National Volume Award for Fire In class Lake: The Vietnamese and nobleness Americans in Vietnam (1972). Keen revised and updated edition close the eyes to FitzGerald's second book, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Ordinal Century (1979), was recently at large and explores the politics outline textbook publishing, and why lesson regard American history as bothersome and "irrelevant." C. Vann Chemist, in The New York Con of Books, asserted, "Her vital contribution has been to incorrigible light on the reasons ground generation after generation of Americas have been deprived. . .of any real sense of scenery, or their place or birth place of their country hit history. . ."

New York Times reviewer Stanley Hoffman called Fire in the Lake, "a warm-hearted and penetrating account of deuce societies that remain untranslatable interested one another, an analysis have all those features of Southern Vietnamese culture that doomed rank American effort from the commencement. . ."

FitzGerald's third paperback, Cities on a Hill: Unadulterated 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 hype a frequent contributor to honesty New Yorker, and has cursive for numerous publications including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Organ, Esquire, Architectural Digest, Islands celebrated Rolling Stone. Her journalism has taken her to Vietnam, integrity Middle East, Europe, Central Usa and the South Pacific. She serves on the editorial wood of The Nation and Foreign Policy, and is vice-president state under oath PEN.

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

"an X-ray exert a pull on American culture that is mass to be missed by a specific seriously interested in our popular future or our past." - Bernard Weisberger, American Heritage, market America Revised

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