Gaithersburg Book Festival (2016) -- Panel: World War II Historical Fiction w/Monica Hesse and Meg Wiviott:
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Monica Hesse is a features writer at The Washington Post, where she writes widely-shared longform pieces and has covered royal weddings, dog shows, political campaigns and White House state dinners. Monica has talked about those stories and others on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, FOX, and NPR. She brings her research chops as a journalist to “Girl in the Blue Coat,” which has already been praised as “a gripping historical mystery” in a starred review from Publishers Weekly and “adept at verisimilitude” in a starred review from Booklist. Monica lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and their dog.
Meg Wiviott:
Meg Wiviott is the author of “Paper Hearts,” a young adult novel-in-verse based on a true story of friendship and survival in Auschwitz. “Paper Hearts” made the 2016 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults and the Amelia Bloomer lists. It was also a Cybils Poetry Finalist and a 2015 Nerdy Poetry and Novel in Verse Winner. Meg is also the author of the award winning picture book, “Benno and the Night of Broken Glass,” which tells the story of Kristallnacht through the eyes of a cat. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.