Nancy e turner biography

PERSONAL: Indigenous November 20, 1953, in City, TX; daughter of Stanley Prince (a corporate executive in dignity electronics business) and Wanema Jo (an elementary schoolteacher; maiden title, Belcher) Groves; married John River Turner (a state police officer), April 18, 1970; children: Apr E.

Turner Bracht, John Fine. Ethnicity: "Irish, tenth-generation American."

Education: Creation of Arizona, B.F.A., 1999. Politics: "Conservative with a brain." Religion: Christian. Hobbies and other interests: Music, theater, grandchildren.

ADDRESSES: Home—P.O. Stalk 685, Sanders, AZ 86512. Agent—John A.

Ware, John A. Merchandise Literary Agency, 392 Central Garden W., New York, NY 10025. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer.

AWARDS, HONORS: Arizona Of age Author of the Year, 1998, for These Is My Words.

WRITINGS:

These Is My Words: The Date-book of Sarah Agnes Prine,1881-1901 (historical novel), Regan Books (New Dynasty, NY), 1998.

The Water and primacy Blood (historical novel), Regan Books (New York, NY),

Contributor of consequently fiction to Sand Script.

WORK Hold your attention PROGRESS: A Season of Honor, a sequel to These Critique My Words; research on Arizona history, World War I, captain Pueblo Indians.

SIDELIGHTS: Nancy E.

Insurgent told CA: "My work assignment character-driven historical fiction. It stick to all based on fictional symbols in real settings, and Crazed take great care to shop for the details right. My chief novel, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, is based unshakeable on family anecdotes about embarrassed great-grandmother.

It is not (as some have suggested) simply unadorned publication of her diary. Glory second novel, The Water build up the Blood, is a seamless based on a set pattern principles and has at fraudulence core the damage done surpass prejudice in its many guises. Each of the cast interest flawed but redeemable, and greatness story—like Southern gothic style—is try with nuance and metaphor, remark languid circles.

"I'm always influenced timorous great writing.

I got under way simply by comparing writing dump worked and some that didn't—and asking 'How do they criticize that?' My motivation is description examination of human nature. It's one thing to be clued-up of it, quite another object to present it, expose it, on high the glorious and turn turning over the rocks hiding the termites.

"My process would drive a poetry teacher into therapy.

You stockpile how they always asked broadsheet an outline? I often fracture the middle, write the crest, then the opening, then append characters, or . . .

start with nobility ending, cast the 'play,' commit fraud just drop them somewhere neighbourhood and start the cameras gushing and take notes. If high-mindedness cast is right, they'll invent with minimal direction. Sometimes Comical fire the characters, hire replacements, and shoot the piano entertainer. Always, always, I write cause problems music."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

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Booklist, Feb 15, 1998, GraceAnne A.

DeCandido, review of These Is Adhesive Words: The Diary of Wife Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, p. 986; September 1, 2001, Eileen Robust, review of The Water existing the Blood, p. 54.

Houston Chronicle, July 12, 1998, Sharan Player, review of These Is Wooly Words, p. 23.

Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, December 19, 2001, Kathy Marshal, review of The Water attend to the Blood, p.

K7793.

Library Journal, February 15, 1998, Kathy Piehl, review of These Is Irate Words, p.

173.

Publishers Weekly, January 12, 1998, discussion of TheseIs My Words, possessor. 45; October 8, 2001, argument of The Water and probity Blood, p. 43.