Esther Hautzig, who wrote The Endless Steppe a memoir of her family’s deportation to Siberia in 1939, died November 1, 2009. She was 79 years old.
Betsy at Fuse #8 knew and worked with Ms. Hautzig.
School Library Journal article on Ms. Hautzig: “In Hautzig’s many appearances at conferences and classrooms, she encouraged people of all ages, especially young people, to keep a journal and record their stories. She believed that all stories were unique to the individuals writing them and each life story important in its own way.”
Nominations list for the Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction. I’ve not read any of these, but I’d like to sample a few after my Cybils work is done. Any suggestions? If you voted, which book did you vote for?
The Next Big Hype: Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James out of Australia. Has anyone actually seen this highly touted YA novel?
Those City Slicker bookends are just TOO cool … I’d make room for them on my mantle! Thanks, Sherry
I think I read “The Endless Steppe” two or three times when I was younger. I loved it. Thanks for the link to the article, I am so interested to read more about this woman whose work I so enjoyed when I was just learning about WWII.
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Interesting list of up and coming titles. Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James looks particularly peculiar.
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