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"Thank you for sharing this poignant post Robb - I am featuring it!"
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The Personal is always Political! (Prompt 6 #swinspires)
My older son came out in 1989, when he was nineteen years old and I was forty-three. I had no idea that I had any stereotyped ideas about homosexuality; my husband and I considered ourselves progressive liberals, and we honest-to-god did have good friends who were gay and lesbian. But we were overwhelmed and did our very best not to let our son know that we were thrown into a state of grief, initially, by his news. There was Pat Buchanan fulminating hatred of gays at the Republican National…See More
Robb Forman Dew left a comment for Lea Beresford
"I'm truly grateful your greeting--and, yes, we have the divine Nancy in common! She is a wonderful friend and a terrific editor! I've just finished a novel I've been working on for five years: Being Polite to Hitler, which Little,…"
Lea Beresford left a comment for Robb Forman Dew
"Dear Robb,
I was excited to see your name awaiting membership approval on SheWrites-- if I remember correctly, you're friends with Nancy Miller, my former boss at Random House and one of my guardian angels.
Welcome to the site!
All my best,
Lea"
Profile Information
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Dale Loves Sophie to Death,
The Time of Her Life
Fortunate Lives
A World Unsuspected
A Southern Thanksgiving
The Family Heart
The Evidence Against Her
The Truth of the Matter
Being Polite to Hitler (Little, Brown: March, 2011)
The Evidence Against Her
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Memoir
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- I review books.
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Not officially in any capacity, but I would have quit writing altogether if I hadn't received and given support to other women writers in the face of having been branded early-on as one of those "three-named-women-writers. I haven't even met many of my closest friends!
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- No.
- My professional associations:
- I'm not sure what "having professional associations"entails, but I am not affiliated with any dues-paying organization.
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The Personal is always Political! (Prompt 6 #swinspires)
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 9:58am 2 Comments 0 Likes
My older son came out in 1989, when he was nineteen years old and I was forty-three. I had no idea that I had any stereotyped ideas about homosexuality; my husband and I considered ourselves progressive liberals, and we honest-to-god did have good friends who were gay and lesbian. But we were overwhelmed and did our very best not to let our son know that we were thrown into a state of grief, initially, by his…
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- At 10:46am on November 4, 2009,
Lea Beresford said… - Dear Robb,
I was excited to see your name awaiting membership approval on SheWrites-- if I remember correctly, you're friends with Nancy Miller, my former boss at Random House and one of my guardian angels.
Welcome to the site!
All my best,
Lea
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