The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2020 Newsletter, i.e. Suzanne Roberts is the author of Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (Nebraska 2020), Almost Somewhere: Twenty Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Nebraska, 2012), and … Continue reading Why I Write: Suzanne Roberts
Anna Weir is a publicist at UNP and is her father’s daughter. Lise Funderburg is a writer and editor as well as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Funderburg’s collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans … Continue reading The Most Interesting Dinner Party You’d Ever Attend: An Interview with Lise Funderburg
The singular American life is a source of endless diversity, and the methods of telling the life are as important as the details themselves. The American Lives series, called “splendid” by Newsweek, features works of creative or literary memoir that, … Continue reading A Closer Look at the American Lives Series
The following has been excerpted from Upstairs at the Roosevelts’: Growing Up with Franklin and Eleanor (July 2017). Chapter 1: My Twelve Years in the White House The question most frequently asked of me is, “What was life like in the White House?” … Continue reading Excerpt: Upstairs at the Roosevelts’
The following is an excerpt from Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey (Nebraska, 2017) by Ila Jane Borders with Jean Hastings Ardell. Ila Jane Borders is the first woman to win a men’s professional baseball game. She has been honored twice at … Continue reading Excerpt: Making My Pitch
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