five creative works by alumnae/i and faculty A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Historian Alice Kessler-Harris ’61 reexamines the life of and controversy surrounding one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Each chapter tackles a different facet of Hellman—a Communist, a Jew, an unapologetically sexual woman, and a writer whose accomplishments were dimmed in her lifetime by accusations of dishonesty. Bloomsbury Press, 2012 / 448 pages
You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Fighting, Loving, and Swearing in Yiddish You Saved Me, Too is a love letter in which Susan Kushner Resnick M.F.A. ’00 chronicles her friendship with Aron Lieb, a Holocaust survivor 44 years her senior. details Resnick’s battle to ensure that Lieb dies with dignity. Globe Pequot Press / skirt!, 2012 / 240 pages
Trout: A True Story of Murder, Teens, and the Death Penalty Jeff Kunerth M.F.A. ’10 presents the chilling true story of three teens hired to commit a murder and the consequences that follow. As in Truman Capote’s In Cold
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Blood, Kunerth examines the lives of the perpetrators and raises questions about the harshness of the criminal justice system toward juveniles. University Press of Florida, 2012 / 216 pages
The Naturally Good Cook Naturalists Sandra Edwards Orris ’60 and Kathleen Skinner present a collection of recipes that call for organic ingredients. Orris’s eye-catching illustrations and an assortment of mouth-watering dishes from turkey chili to strawberry pie are sure to delight readers’ senses. Food for Thought Press, 2012 / 150 pages
The Writer and the Overseas Childhood: The Third Culture Literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and Others Antje M. Rauwerda, associate professor and department chair of English, explores the literature of writers who, like her, spent significant portions of their childhoods as expatriates. The study surveys the writings of 17 third culture authors, whose works share themes of displacement, loss, and disenfranchisement, introducing the field of third culture literature. McFarland & Co. Inc., 2012 / 193 pages
More creative works by alumnae/i and faculty can be found at www.goucher.edu/quarterly.
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