Sheila Wood Foard
Autor von Harvey Girl
Über den Autor
Sheila Wood Foard earned a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of New Mexico. She taught journalism, writing, and literature in Albuquerque for 25 years and has written profiles of New Mexicans and feature articles for the Albuquerque Journal. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in mehr anzeigen various magazines for young readers. Jamie Pietras is a writer and journalist who lives in New York City. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing with a concentration in nonfiction from Columbia University. weniger anzeigen
Werke von Sheila Wood Foard
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Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 20th century
- Geschlecht
- female
- Geburtsort
- West Virginia, USA
- Wohnorte
- West Virginia, USA
New Mexico, USA
Missouri, USA - Berufe
- journalism teacher
docent, Harvey House, New Mexico
writing instructor - Organisationen
- Institute of Children's Literature
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Statistikseite
- Werke
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 24
- Beliebtheit
- #522,742
- Bewertung
- 3.7
- Rezensionen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 7
The book is light. The story is interesting, but the writing is pretty basic. It's not a bad book by any means, just not as hefty as the books I'm used to. The characters are pretty one dimensional, not all that fleshed out.
It's more of a light hearted historical look at what a Harvey Girl was more than anything. It just kind of lacked oomph. Interesting if you're interested in the Harvey Girls and turn of the century American history. It was a really, really fast read. I think I read it over three days and that was pretty much just while I was using the potty hee hee hee… (mehr)