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NEWS
My new novel, Clara and Merritt, will be published
by
Wordcraft of Oregon
in June
2010.
Advance Praise
for Clara and Merritt:
"Clara and
Merritt is rich with details that give life to a
little-known chapter of our past. Peter Donahue draws us into a
panoramic, dramatic saga—events
that affected the entire Pacific Northwest and generations
to come."
— Molly Gloss, author
of
The Jump-Off Creek, Wild Life, and The Hearts of Horses.
"Peter Donahue has crafted an impressive, fully
imagined, satisfying drama, and Clara Hamilton ranks among
the most endearing and inspiring heroines in Northwest
literature."
— Jim Lynch, author
of The Highest Tide and Border Songs.
Appearances:
Thursday, June 10, 7:00 p.m.,
Annie Bloom's Books, Multnomah Village, OR
Friday, June 11, 7:00 p.m.
Powell's City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR
Saturday, June 12, 3:15 p.m.
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference,
Portland, OR
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PETER DONAHUE
writes fiction and nonfiction. He is the author of the novel
Madison House
(Hawthorne Books, 2005), winner of the Langum Prize for
Historical Fiction, and the short story collection
The Cornelius Arms (Missing
Spoke Press, 2000). His second novel, Clara and Merritt,
and his second short story collection, Somewhere South and
Other Destinations, will be published by Wordcraft of Oregon
in 2010.
Peter is also co-editor, with John Trombold, of
Reading Seattle: The City in Prose
(2004)
and
Reading Portland: The City in Prose
(2007), both published by the University of Washington Press.
The anthologies celebrate the literary legacy of these two
dynamic Northwest cities with special emphasis on their cultural
diversity. In addition, Peter writes the
Retrospective Review column on
vintage Northwest literature that appears in each issue of
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, published by
the Washington State Historical Society. He has also published
many short stories and critical articles on American literature
in
literary journals
and
scholarly periodicals.
A graduate of the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and
Oklahoma State University, Peter is an associate professor of
English at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, where he
teaches creative writing and journalism and organizes the BACHE
Visiting Writers Series and the annual WRITING TODAY Writers
Conference. As a writing teacher, Peter strives to offer
student-writers every opportunity to pursue their passion for
writing within a challenging and supportive environment.
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