Suzanne McMinn
Suzanne McMinn former romance writer turned intrepid farm girl, is the creator of the incredibly popular personal website www.chickensintheroad.com. A professional writer, teacher, and photographer, she is the author of twenty-six published novels and writes a bimonthly column for the Charleston Daily Mail. She lives in West Virginia.
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From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly. She has written feature stories for GQ, where she is a correspondent. Formerly a Contributing Editor at Esquire, her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Sportswriting. She also is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in Reader's Digest and writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies' Home Journal.
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John Henderson was born, raised, and educated in Eugene, Oregon, and graduated in journalism from his hometown University of Oregon. Upon graduation, he traveled around the world for a year alone before starting a sportswriting career at the now defunct Fournier Newspapers in suburban Seattle. He went on to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he worked from 1980 to 1990, and the Denver Post, where he covered sports from 1990 to 2014 with a sixteen-month sabbatical in Rome in 2001. He has been a freelance travel writer since 1984. John writes the weekly travel blog, Dog-Eared Passport, and the twice-monthly blog, TraveLazio. He lives in Rome.
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Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (which was produced by Universal Pictures as "Fried Green Tomatoes"), Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, Standing in the Rainbow, and A Redbird Christmas.
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Kristin Kimball
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
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He is well-known for his roles as Michael Corleone in the The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Frank Serpico in Serpico, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman, and Roy Cohn in Angels in America. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 for his role in Scent of a Woman after being nominated 7 times beforehand for various roles. -
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If life deals you a bad hand, don’t fold, take a chance; a good player will always come out on top.
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Craig Briggs was born on the 12th of July 1962, in St. Luke’s Hospital, Huddersfield, the second child, and only son, of Donald and Glenys Briggs. The birth of their daughter had been a joy. The arrival of Craig would make the family complete. Unfortunately, Craig was not a ‘normal’ lad; he’d been born with congenital feet deformities.
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Ellen Stimson
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Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in the New York Times, Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today. Her work has been recognized in “Best of” lists by the the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Longread, Longform, Apple News Audio, and Best American Sports Writing. She teaches Feature Writing for Harvard Extension School and lives in Idaho.
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Sally Urwin
Sally grew up in Tynemouth, a small coastal town in Tyne and Wear. She went to a convent school in Newcastle and after escaping, studied History at the University of Durham.
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Sally worked for many years at the coal face of corporate marketing. Her most depressing job was marketing an insolvency practitioner to very sad bankrupt business people. Eventually in 2004, she met Steve and was married a year later, throwing away her high heels and smart suits and settling down into helping on the farm.
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Her work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Orion, The Atlantic, Vox, and many others. Her articles have been selected for Year’s Best Sports Writing and Best Food Writing and been notable selections in Best American Food Writing and Best American Travel Writing. She has been interviewed about her work by 99% Invisible, Ologies, Marketplace, KERA Think, and others.
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Sally Urwin
Sally grew up in Tynemouth, a small coastal town in Tyne and Wear. She went to a convent school in Newcastle and after escaping, studied History at the University of Durham.
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Sally worked for many years at the coal face of corporate marketing. Her most depressing job was marketing an insolvency practitioner to very sad bankrupt business people. Eventually in 2004, she met Steve and was married a year later, throwing away her high heels and smart suits and settling down into helping on the farm.
As a slightly horrifying dowry, Sally brought with her an elderly and very grumpy Shetland pony called Gladys and her much loved rescue cat called Cyril.
Sally now spends her time farming sheep, looking after her children, writing, working, and fight