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North Star Guardians|Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's Episode
Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Lauren Kessler, author of Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story published by Penguin.
Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's), Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. She is also the author of Oregon Book Award winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the stateâs 2009 sesquicentennial.Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, newsweek.com and salon.com. She is a national speaker and workshop leader. The founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.
She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her writer husband, Tom Hager, her three brilliant and faultless children and a cat that thinks itâs a dog.
Visit her website
[ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:35:00 GMT ]
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