Writing Out Loud: What a Blind Teacher Learned from Leading a Memoir Class for Seniors

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll write. She's never taught a class in her life. But when the...
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Writing Out Loud: What a Blind Teacher Learned from Leading a Memoir Class for Seniors by Finke, Beth

Writing Out Loud: What a Blind Teacher Learned from Leading a Memoir Class for Seniors

BD$26.95

Writing Out Loud: What a Blind Teacher Learned from Leading a Memoir Class for Seniors

BD$26.95
Author: Beth Finke
Format: Paperback
Language: English

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll write.

She's never taught a class in her life. But when the City of Chicago calls on blind writer Beth Finke to teach a memoir-writing class for older adults, she reluctantly agrees. What she learns about her students, their stories, and herself will move and inspire you.

Written the way Beth hears life, you will come to know and love Minerva, Wanda, Hannelore, and the whole colorful cast of characters who build a community around Beth's classes.

Generously sprinkled with excerpts in her students' own voices, Beth's book will convince you to get your own stories down on paper while there's still time.

Honest, lyrical, and funny ... a beautifully-felt and deeply moving tribute to the ways sharing life stories can connect us with others, and sometimes, with ourselves.

-Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D.
Bestselling author of Strong Women Stay Young



Author: Beth Finke
Publisher: Golden Alley Press
Published: 04/30/2017
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780998442921

About the Author
Finke, Beth: - Beth Finke is an award-winning author, teacher, and journalist. She also happens to be blind. Beth's Seeing Eye dog, Whitney, leads her through airports and hotels to events all over North America to speak on memoir writing, disability, workplace accessibility, and overcoming adversity. Audiences have included PepsiCo, American Library Association, United Stationers, Easterseals, The Seeing Eye, University of Chicago Medical School, and Carnegie Mellon University. In summer, Beth can be found leading writing workshops at the Northwestern University Summer Writers' Conference and at Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest. She is the recipient of a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the ASPCA's Henry Bergh award for children's literature. The Lisagor Award Beth won for a radio piece about the Chicago White Sox makes her the only blind woman in America to be honored for sports broadcasting, and she appeared on the Oprah Show in a short segment about working as a nude model for university art students before her writing career took off. Beth is married to Mike Knezovich. They have one grown son, Gus, and live in the Printers Row neighborhood of Chicago with Beth's Seeing Eye dog, Whitney.

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