Geraldine Gardner Girard

Cousins

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 153g
• ISBN-13: 9781514435533
• ISBN-10: 1514435535
• Artikelnr.: 44509013

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Gardner was born in the Appalachian Mountain, and it was her father who gave her the love of them although she didn't grow up there; her parents moved her north so her father could find work. Her parents also made a yearly pilgrimage home every summer. She attended elementary school in Detroit, Michigan. And she attended junior high and high school in Laurel, Maryland. She got married the year after high school and, over a ten-year period, had four children. She and her husband and their first baby daughter moved to the mountains, following her parents, who had moved back the year before. The little family settled in the Piedmont in North Carolina, though, and it was there that she also had her three sons. She received her first college degree there in drafting and design. She studied journalism at this college as well and became interested in newspaper writing while working on the college newspaper. She designed furniture for several years. After her divorce, she headed back to the mountains, and shortly after moving to the mountains, she then decided to return to college and get the degree in teaching. This second degree was in elementary education, specializing in middle grade, and later, she got the degree in visual art. She taught art in kindergarten to grade 8. And then grades 6, 7, and 8 at the New Middle School at the same county. She was active in many writing workshops and also worked as a docent at the Thomas Wolfe House on weekends. She was first published in several local newspapers and later in the Thomas Wolfe Review.