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Perkins-Valdez has said she was inspired to write her debut novel, Wench: A Novel (2010), after reading a biography of W.E.B. She is currently an associate professor at American University in Washington, DC. Perkins-Valdez has published short fiction and essays in such magazines as The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, StorySouth, African American Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, Richard Wright Newsletter, and SLI: Studies in Literary Imagination. She completed a PhD in English at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Early life and education ĭolen Perkins-Valdez attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, earning a BA degree. She is chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Directors. Wench: A Novel (2010) Balm: A Novel (2015)ĭolen Perkins-Valdez is an American writer, best known for her debut novel Wench: A Novel (2010), which became a bestseller. The novel was an enormous success, winning the prestigious Whitbread Award for a First Novel, and was eventually adapted into a serial television program for the BBC-Winterson wrote the screenplay, and the program premiered in 1990 to even more buzz and acclaim. Shortly after graduating, Winterson published her first book-the autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit-in 1985, at just twenty-five years old. Winterson was raised to be a missionary, but after coming out as a lesbian at the age of sixteen, she was forced to leave home, live in her car, and work odd jobs to put herself through college at Oxford University. Born in Manchester to a seventeen-year-old factory worker and adopted by the Winterson family six months after her birth, Jeanette Winterson was raised by Pentecostal Evangelical Christian parents in Accrington, a manufacturing city in Northern England. Gregory Benford is a writer who has worked for decades in theoretical and experimental physics research. Another team sent by a European-Asian collaboration follows them and all the humans arrived on Mars encounter various problems they need to solve in order to return to Earth. The Consortium he put together to finance the feat is the first to send four people to the red planet, but to win the prize they must be the first to return. However, the goal of sending humans to Mars is kept alive by the announcement of a $30 billion prize for whoever can accomplish that feat and bring astronauts back to Earth.īillionaire John Axelrod intends to win the prize and earn more money thanks to the Mars mission and its results. The rocket that’s supposed to carry the first astronauts to Mars explodes at launch and the immediate consequence is the decision by the USA President to give up such attempts to focus on missions in the vicinity of the Earth. The novel “The Martian Race” by Gregory Benford was published for the first time in 1999. |