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Life Lessons From a Dying Friend
By Paul Rogat Loeb (about the author)
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Bobby
Robert Gordon is the author of When Bobby Kennedy Was a Moving Ma and The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison.He's written for Esquire, the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Ploughshares, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and taught writing in Washington State prisons, juvenile institutions and inner-city high schools. He wrote Funhouse Mirror while undergoing chemotherapy, collaborating with six of his incarcerated students to let their voices be heard. The book won the 2000 Washington State Book Award. As one critic wrote of Bobby Kennedy, "Gordon's vision is at once radical and healing. It teaches us a little about Heaven and a lot about Hell."
Become a Fan (5 fans) -- Page 4 of 4 page(s)
Bobby
Robert Gordon is the author of When Bobby Kennedy Was a Moving Ma and The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison.He's written for Esquire, the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Ploughshares, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and taught writing in Washington State prisons, juvenile institutions and inner-city high schools. He wrote Funhouse Mirror while undergoing chemotherapy, collaborating with six of his incarcerated students to let their voices be heard. The book won the 2000 Washington State Book Award. As one critic wrote of Bobby Kennedy, "Gordon's vision is at once radical and healing. It teaches us a little about Heaven and a lot about Hell."
Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, and The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear,winner of the 2005 Nautilus Award for the best (more...)
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What an Odyssy.
by GLloyd Rowsey on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:10:54 AM
touches your heart
by sometimes blinded on Monday, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:33:45 AM