Bøger af Lynn Veach Sadler

The storylines, frames, narrators (e.g., cats, an historical dog, a tuning fork, God) of Sadler's arsenal are unusual and can be shocking ("The Last Time Americans Agreed on Anything Was World War II"). The "history," always at least grounded in truth, includes Native Americans, the American Revolution (and the Welsh in North Carolina), the Civil War, the Quasi-War with France, Grey Wolf and Turkey, slaves and slave uprisings (not just in America but Austria and Cartagena), the Indus civilization, a take-over of the world (and Afghanistan) by a coalition of cats and horses, an old maid missionary/spy who gives the phrase "paper tiger" to Mao-Tse-tung, a follow-on to Jack Kerouac's last novel (Pic), animal abuse (a struggle to save the condors of Argentina, lemurs and other animals in Madagascar, and tortoises in the Encantadas/Galapagos), Operation Desert Story and Operation Iraqi Freedom, peacocks and the legacy of Pukka Sahib Ockenden, America's Twenties, Toby Jugs, and a husband-and-wife team who belong to The Company and communicate via a code based on Dodgson's Alice. Sadler's connections are amazing. One story combines the Old West, Lillie Langtry, Lash La Rue, Guru W. Edwards Deming, sweet potatoes, music, a World Crusade, Japan, and Ava Gardner; another offers up Hanukkah, Annie Leibovitz, Einstein, and "The Shamus Maccabeus." Sadler does her research before she writes, but she's also voyaged around the world five times, especially apparent in "Fresh Rice Ear of a Thousand Autumns." You'll often hear the "real" with new details. Wit and imagination also partner throughout this collection.

Hey, does this woman author (a one-time college President, for Heaven's sake!) look like a devotee of the Old West to you? In the "Preface" to Tie One to That!, you'll find out precisely why she is. Read the stories-you're likely to discover something you don't know, including "lingo," especially in "Lillie Langtry's 'Lash La Rue Sweet Potatoes' World Crusade, Or Why You Can't Buy Quintussential Western Wear Boots." It will also introduce you to Total Quality guru Dr. W. Edwards Deming. "Now how in the world is he relevant to the Old West," you're asking. Dr. Sadler will let you know. Iroquois "Ely Parker" will tell you of Grant and Lee. So will Mrs. Grant, who is also hung up on canaries, including Martha Jane Canary. If Cornstalk is a bit cautious in identifying the source of his "curse," try the person known as "The Fourth Indian." The Old West is just for Americans? Not so. Give "The Miss Addie" and her Argentinian gauchos a try. With you in the saddle behind her, she'll attempt to save the last of the condors. How do you live in today's world while pining for the Old West? How do you "meet-up" with the "Outlaw of Yester-Year"? Tie One to That! offers an answer to your aching need there, too. Lynn Veach Sadler Former college president Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler has published, in academics, 5+ books and 72 articles and has edited 22 books/proceedings and three national journals and publishes a newspaper column. In creative writing, she has 10 poetry chapbooks and 4 full-length collections, over 100 short stories, 4 novels, a novella, and a short story collection and has written 40+ plays, including one commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. She pioneered in computer-assisted composition and the adaptation of Deming and Total Quality to higher education. As Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentors student and adult poets. She was Visiting Distinguished Scholar in the "Educational Leadership for a Competitive America" seminar of the United States Office of Personnel Management, presented at the First International Milton Symposium in England, and was Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "The Novel of Slave Unrest." One of her Bennett College students was responsible for her 2010 selection for the National Women's Hall of Fame. She and her husband, Dr. Emory Sadler, have traveled around the world five times.

It is absolutely impossible to define this humorous collection of poetry, born at the finely sharpened end of Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler's pencil, other than... absolutely marvelous.Delving in, stealing from and exploiting unfathomable depths of academia, pun, and personal wit, Dr. Lynn threads word-barbs on the steel of sentence-wires with machine-gun speed at sniper-rifle accuracy. She could have had easily qualified (among her numerous other titles) for the "Muhammad Ali of the ho[a]xing world [of English]" title, had such a title existed.This short review is written by one of Dr. Lynn's aspiring students, poorly trying to imitate her inimitable style.

A second collection of eight prized plays. "Hanging-Cat" Honorable Mention, Stage Play Script, Writer's Digest 2001 Writing Competition. "The Cover Crop" as the short story "In Hot Pursuit of Genetics and Human Behavior," Finalist, WordSmitten Media, Inc., TenTen Fiction Competition, 2007. "The Gar Hole" as short story Second Place, Green River Tales: Short Stories, Green River Writers 2004 Contest. "Grace-Noted Albatrosses" with A Brave Going at Fate, Fourth Place, Mindful of Miracles, 1999 Annual Awards, Poetry Society of Texas. "Why Couldn't Mama Be a Jewish Mother?" Third Place, Mount Dora [Florida] Festival of Music and Literature, 2005. "If I'm Any Judge" one of the winners, 2003 Annual Vitality Playwriting Contest. "Barbie's Mother Calls Home" as poem, Barbie's Mother Calls Home, Second Prize, Joe Logan Short Humor Awards, Amelia, 1999.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women's Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 5 full-length collections, 125+ short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina's Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn's awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State.

A collection of eight prized plays. "Sassing the Sphinx" commissioned for the first Robert Frost Symposium 'Celebrating Robert Frost: An International Conference' Winthrop University, 1997. "Women of the Condor" honorable mention as a short story, Twelfth Consecutive New Millennium Writing Awards, 2001. "Lillie Langtry's 'Lash La Rue Sweet Potatoes'" quarter-finalist as a screen play, Lone Star Screenplay Competition, 1997. "Boo Radley and the Village People" honorable mention as a poem, Long Poem Contest, Rhyme Time, 2002. "Ms. Spam Maps of Vegas" winner Florida First Coast Writers' Festival Playwriting Contest, 2006. "Death Nell" winnerTampa Writers Alliance Play/Screenplay Competition, 2005. "Gnat" award Paul Green Multi-Media Award, North Carolina Society of Historians, 1996. "Second-Time-Around" winner Judith Siegel Pearson Award, Wayne State University, 2008.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women's Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 4 full-length collections, 125+ short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections (including Litmus Tests, Volumes I and II), and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina's Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn's awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State of North Carolina.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women's Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 4 full-length collections, 125+ short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections (including Litmus Tests, Volumes I and II), and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina's Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn's awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State of North Carolina.

Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, National Women's Hall of Fame member, and Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet (2013-2015), has published widely in academics and in creative writing: books, articles, newspaper columns, poetry chapbooks and full collections, short stories, novels, a novella, short story collections and nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. Lynn pioneered/consulted in Computer-Assisted Composition, published its first journal and established the first microcomputer laboratory for teaching writing. She originated the first academic computing conference in North Carolina, was Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Educational Leadership, and directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College Teachers. Her awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State.