Welcome to Bedlam
Chicago, Illinois: Evelyn-Girard Press, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [6], 126, [4] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: To Ginny--Good friend and wonderful artist! Cheers, Jeri. Includes Waltzing to St. Elizabeths: Slices of an Eccentric Woman's Life; Welcome to Washington; Happy Birthday, Derek--Wherever You Are; On Father's Day, 1986; The Photography Studio Portrait; A Valentine's Day Tale; Two Dreams; ...And Two More Dreams; The Kevorkian Argument; Winter and Spring; The East German Greatcoat; New Life Fore; A Bad Night in 1995; Nearly Any August; Everything; Funny Things Can Happen in a Rainforest; and A Family of Conspirators; Looking for answers: A Moment from the Last Hours of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: April 8, 1945; Through the Night, a Pageant Play. Before Watson was a novelist, she was a journalist.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, she wrote for a Chicago metropolitan daily newspaper and taught journalism at Northwestern University, her alma mater. Later she moved with her husband and two sons to the Washington, D.C. area, where she wrote free-lance journalism and reported for an international news operation. Jerilyn Watson is the author of a nonfiction book, "Welcome to Bedlam," and fictional short stories published in Canadian literary magazines. Her Christmas script for children, "Angelina's Dress," has been broadcast in many countries and translated into several languages. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: St. Elizabeths, Mental Hospital, Washington, Photography Studio, Kevorkian, Rainforest, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Greatcoat, Conspirators, Eccentric Woman, Valentine's Day, Lifeform
[Book #82969]
Price: $150.00