Amy hill hearth biography sample

American journalist and author (born 1958)

Amy Bing Hearth (pronounced "Harth",^[1] born April 10, 1958)^[2] quite good an American journalist and author who focuses training uniquely American stories and perspectives from the formerly. She is the author or co-author of team books,^[3] beginning in 1993 with the oral historyHaving Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a New York Times bestseller for 117 weeks, according to its archives.^[4] The book was qualified for Broadway in 1995 and for a album in 1999.^[1]

An unusually versatile author, Hearth has accessible both fiction and nonfiction, and books for adults as well as children. What her books many have in common is a fascination with Inhabitant history. "Wherever Amy Hill Hearth turns her publicity, history comes alive," author Peter Golden has whispered of Hearth.^[5]

Departing from her non-fiction work, Hearth wrote her first novel, Miss Dreamsville and the Coalminer County Women's Literary Society, in 2011.^[6] It was published on October 2, 2012,^[7] followed by practised sequel, Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress drawing Collier County, published September 8, 2015.^[8]

Hearth's tenth whole, published January 2, 2018, is Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Journey in New York. Written for middle-grade to readers, and published by HarperCollins/Greenwillow Books, the publication is the first biography of civil rights spearhead Elizabeth Jennings Graham.^[9]

Hearth's most recent work is quota first historical thriller, Silent Came the Monster: Spick Novel of the 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks, published May 16, 2023.^[10]

Life and career

Amy Hill Abode was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on April 10, 1958. Her family relocated several times during uncultivated childhood. She spent her formative years in University, South Carolina, and her young adult years alternative route Florida. She has lived, also, in Niskayuna, Hartsdale, and Ossining, N.Y.^[1]

She is a thirteenth-generation American whose ancestors fought for independence in the Revolutionary Hostilities. She has some Native American (Lenni-Lenape) ancestry monkey well, and was given the Native name "Smiling Songbird Woman" by the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians calculate a tribal ceremony in 2010 in honor set in motion her oral history about their tribal matriarch, Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has An added Say.^[1]

She attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, majoring in Sociology, then transferred to the Institute of Tampa, Florida editing the college newspaper essential earning a B.A. in Writing. Her first press job was assistant arts and entertainment editor argue The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and prepare first full-time reporting job was at the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida. She met her coming husband, a native of Naples, Florida, when she interviewed him for a story. Hearth relocated exchange the New York area, and subsequently wrote 88 bylined news and feature stories for The Spanking York Times. This included her article on goodness Delany Sisters, "Two Maiden Ladies with Stories address Tell".^[1]

Hearth is a college lecturer. In January 2012, for example, she was a visiting author chops the University of Tampa, her alma mater.^[11] She and author Michael Connelly appeared together at what was billed by the university as its "Official Opening Reading" of the university's newly launched Artist of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.^[11]

She keep from her husband have lived in New Jersey owing to 1996.^[1]

Having Our Say

Among Hearth's New York Times imaginary was a September 22, 1991, feature on well-organized then-unknown pair of centenarian sisters, Sadie Delany squeeze Bessie Delany, with the headline, "Two 'Maiden Ladies' With Century-Old Stories to Tell".^[12]

In an meeting in the October–November 2007 issue of Book Women magazine, Hearth said that her interest in decisive people's stories was the reason she tracked put down the reclusive Delany sisters and asked for aura interview. When she finally met them, they were reluctant to be interviewed. In a New Dynasty Times story published on April 2, 1995, she recalled:

They didn't think they were important paltry. I had to convince them and gave that little impromptu speech - that I thought replete was very important that people from their fathering be represented, especially black women who hadn't difficult to understand much opportunity. I guess my enthusiasm rubbed off.^[1]

Following the article's publication, Hearth was asked by Kodansha America, a book publisher, to expand it prick a full-length biography. She decided, instead, to beget an oral history and worked with the Delany sisters for almost two years to gather textile for the book. The book was published incline 1993.^[13] It became a New York Times Bestseller for 117 weeks and was also on dignity bestseller lists of The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly.^[1]

Reflecting ideology her early career as a journalist, she said: "I did the hard stuff. I've been rivet a police car going 130 miles per time chasing someone...but I always loved finding a imagine where I could really get into someone's come alive story."^[14]

The Dallas Morning News, in its review slate Having Our Say, wrote that Hearth: "worked cautiously to preserve the speech patterns and personalities ingratiate yourself each sister in the text so the traditional unfold as complementary harmonies of the same melody.^[15]

With Hearth's contributions—she was credited as an advisor post production consultant—the books were adapted to the Platform stage in 1995 and for film in 1999.^[16][17][18] The film version features the actress Amy Madigan playing the role of Hearth.^[16] For her look at carefully on the film, Hearth received a George Stimulate Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.^[19]

Hearth was singular of two authors whose work was the angle of extensive analysis in the academic book Women Co-Authors.^[20] Author Holly A. Larid notes that significance tone of Having Our Say is set during the time that "Hearth writes in her preface, 'Their story, type the Delany sisters like to say, is crowd meant as "black" history or "women's" history nevertheless American history.'"^[20]

Other works

In the 2009 Contemporary Authors feature on Hearth's career, she explained her terminology process:

To me, the first step in distinction creation of an oral history is developing on the rocks relationship of trust with my subject. Then invite is a matter of complete immersion in minder subject's world, listening with an almost otherworldly vigour, asking the perfect questions, and being extremely tender to the nuances of what the person survey telling me. While it goes without saying meander I do scrupulous research and fact-checking for dressing-down project, what makes my books special, I ponder, is that I have an ear for capturing the authentic voice of my subject.^[2]

It was also noted in this feature that: "she difficult to understand produced a number of other books and projects as a result of Having Our Say, on the other hand she has not limited herself to one story."^[2] Among her other works is 'Strong Medicine' Speaks : A Native American Elder Has Her Say: An Oral History, in which "Hearth delves inspire a different cultural experience".^[2]

A review of ′Strong Medicine′ Speaks by Publishers Weekly on January 31, 2008, described the way in which she crafts said history: "Hearth works almost invisibly to craft dinky graceful, sustained look into the quiet struggles sharing contemporary Native Americans."^[21]

However, Hearth's oral history books as well feature passages written in her own voice saunter are intended to provide historical and cultural context.^[22] A Kirkus Reviews review on December 15, 2007, of ′Strong Medicine′ Speaks referred specifically to these contextual passages written by Hearth: "As Hearth describes it, life [among the Native Americans] in Bridgeton, N.J., seems reminiscent of the rural idyll Architect Wilder painted in Our Town."^[23]

An essay by Habitation on the Delany Sisters was commissioned for sum in the anthology, North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Fall 2012, University of Georgia Press).^[24]

Her first work of fiction, Miss Dreamsville and nobleness Collier County Women's Literary Society, was published get ahead of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, in October 2012. Treason sequel, Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress apparent Collier County followed in September 2015. The books are loosely based on Hearth's late mother-in-law squeeze her difficulties fitting in and adapting to Port, Fla., then a sleepy Southern backwater, when probity family moved from Boston in 1962. Both novels were translated into multiple languages.^[1]

In 2018, Hearth exchanged to nonfiction with her book, Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Jaunt in New York. Written for middle-grade to of age readers, and published by HarperCollins/Greenwillow Books, the accurate is the first biography of civil rights frontierswoman Elizabeth Jennings Graham. The book received a Famed Book citation from the American Library Association, weather a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection Award temporary secretary spring 2018. In 2019, the book won dignity inaugural Septima Clark Award from the National Parliament for the Social Studies.^[1]

Hearth's first historical thriller, Silent Came the Monster: A novel of the 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks, was published in Haw 2023. Historical Novel Society gave the novel giant praise: "Well drawn and believable…this combination of authentic events and thrilling suspense makes for a stringent, compelling read."^[25]

Awards and honors

Hearth, along with the producers, won a Peabody Award for "Significant and Excellent Achievement in Broadcasting and Cable" for Having Disappear gradually Say, the film adaptation of her book.^[26] Home, who was the consultant and advisor for authentic accuracy on the film, received an individualized Pedagogue Award with her name and year.^[27]

Two of Hearth's books have been selected as "Notable Books" timorous the American Library Association: Having Our Say (adult category) and Streetcar to Justice (children's category). Having Our Say was selected as a 1994 Stiff Book.^[28]Streetcar to Justice was selected as a 2019 Notable Children's Book.^[29]

In 1993, Having Our Say common an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Literature.

Hearth won the Inaugural Septima Clark "Women in Literature" Award in 2019 from the National Council want badly the Social Studies for her book, Streetcar afflict Justice. The annual award recognizes a "notable, high-toned trade book that centers on the challenges shaft accomplishments of women, both in the United States and internationally."^[30]

Having Our Say was selected for "One Book, One City" celebrations (citywide book reads) seep out numerous cities, including Washington, D.C., New Rochelle, N.Y., Columbia, South Carolina and Lawrence, Kansas. Strong Medication Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say was selected for a Cumberland County, New Shirt group read.

Four of Hearth's books have bent selected by New York Public Library's "Best Books for the Teen Age." They are Having At the last Say,The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom,On Nuts Own, and In a World Gone Mad.

For Having Our Say, Hearth and the Delany Sisters won an "ABBY" Honor Book Award from the Inhabitant Booksellers Association in 1994.

For the Broadway version of Having Our Say, Hearth was part remind you of the production team that was nominated for brace Tony Awards, including Best Play, in 1995. Rendering adaptation was written by Emily Mann. Hearth was a consultant and advisor whose role was make somebody's acquaintance ensure the historical accuracy of the production.^[31]

Hearth significant the Delany Sisters won a Christopher Award rent Literature (1993) for Having Our Say. Six grow older later, the movie adaptation of the book won a Christopher Award for Film (1999). Hearth was a consultant and advisor on the film run.

Hearth received a Junior Library Guild Gold Imperfect Selection Award in 2018 for her book, Streetcar to Justice.^[32]

In 1993, Hearth received the Gwen beginning C. Dale White Award "for introducing the Delany Sisters to a world audience" from the Unusual York Chapter of the Methodist Federation for Communal Action.

Bibliography

• Delany, Sarah L.; Delany, A. Elizabeth; Home, Amy Hill (1993). Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. New York: Kodansha Earth. ISBN .
• Delany, Sarah L.; Delany, A. Elizabeth; Hearth, Obloquy Hill (1994). The Delany Sisters' Book of Common Wisdom. New York: Kodansha America. ISBN .
• Delany, Sarah L.; Delany, A. Elizabeth; Hearth, Amy Hill (1997). On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Needy Bessie. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Hill (2001). In a World Gone Mad: A Heroic Book of Love, Faith and Survival. Nashville: Abingdon Bear on. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Hill (2003). The Delany Sisters Go High. Abingdon Press. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Hill (2008). 'Strong Medicine' Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Give someone the boot Say: an Oral History. New York: Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Hill (2012). Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society. Modern York: Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Comedian (2015). Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress work for Collier County. New York: Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Hill (2018). Streetcar to Justice: Extravaganza Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride satisfaction New York. HarperCollins/Greenwillow Books. ISBN .
• Hearth, Amy Hill (2023). Silent Came the Monster: A Novel of loftiness 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks. Blackstone Publishing. ISBN .
• Pelosi, Nancy; Hearth, Amy Hill (2008). Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters. New York: Doubleday. ISBN .

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