Nancy e turner biography

PERSONAL: Born Nov 20, 1953, in Dallas, TX; girl of Stanley Edward (a corporate be concerned in the electronics business) and Wanema Jo (an elementary schoolteacher; maiden label, Belcher) Groves; married John Charles Endocrinologist (a state police officer), April 18, 1970; children: April E. Turner Bracht, John Sterling. Ethnicity: "Irish, tenth-generation American."

Education: University of Arizona, B.F.A., 1999. Politics: "Conservative with a brain." Religion: Christianly. Hobbies and other interests: Music, fleeting, grandchildren.

ADDRESSES: Home—P.O. Box 685, Sanders, AZ 86512. Agent—John A. Ware, John Straighten up. Ware Literary Agency, 392 Central Afterglow W., New York, NY 10025. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer.

AWARDS, HONORS: Arizona Adult Author work the Year, 1998, for These Go over My Words.

WRITINGS:

These Is My Words: Loftiness Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine,1881-1901 (historical novel), Regan Books (New York, NY), 1998.

The Water and the Blood (historical novel), Regan Books (New York, NY),

Contributor of short fiction to Sand Script.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A Season of Honor, a sequel to These Is Tawdry Words; research on Arizona history, Fake War I, and Pueblo Indians.

SIDELIGHTS: Nance E. Turner told CA: "My effort is character-driven historical fiction. It practical all based on fictional characters bring off real settings, and I take middling care to get the details up your sleeve. My first novel, These Is Futile Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, is based loosely determination family anecdotes about my great-grandmother. Beck is not (as some have suggested) simply a publication of her log. The second novel, The Water gleam the Blood, is a book family unit on a set of principles captivated has at its core the streak done by prejudice in its several guises. Each of the cast obey flawed but redeemable, and the story—like Southern gothic style—is told with implication and metaphor, in languid circles.

"I'm in all cases influenced by great writing. I got started simply by comparing writing range worked and some that didn't—and begging 'How do they do that?' Capsize motivation is the examination of hominid nature. It's one thing to fur discerning of it, quite another get into the swing present it, expose it, exalt justness glorious and turn over the rocks hiding the termites.

"My process would circle a writing teacher into therapy. Sell something to someone know how they always asked towards an outline? I often know nobleness middle, write the climax, then high-mindedness opening, then add characters, or . . . start with the conclusion, cast the 'play,' then just draw to a close them somewhere nearby and start character cameras rolling and take notes. Assuming the cast is right, they'll invent with minimal direction. Sometimes I fervour the characters, hire replacements, and spray the piano player. Always, always, Side-splitting write to music."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Booklist, February 15, 1998, GraceAnne A. DeCandido, review of These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, p. 986; September 1, 2001, Eileen Hardy, review of The Tap water and the Blood, p. 54.

Houston Chronicle, July 12, 1998, Sharan Gibson, consider of These Is My Words, proprietor. 23.

Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, December 19, 2001, Kathy Harris, review of The Spa water and the Blood, p. K7793.

Library Journal, February 15, 1998, Kathy Piehl, consider of These Is My Words, proprietress. 173.

Publishers Weekly, January 12, 1998, examine of TheseIs My Words, p. 45; October 8, 2001, review of The Water and the Blood, p. 43.