Mr. and Mrs. K. at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland.   

Daughter Mollie and Mrs. K. communing with James Joyce.  

The Bluebird Bicycle Club completes another ride. 

PROFILE

NAME: Diane C. Kennedy

FAMILY: Husband Frank Kennedy, daughter Mollie Kennedy 

EDUCATION: B. S. Central Michigan University, M. A. Western Michigan University

CLASSES: English 10, Honors English 10, Creative Writing, Adv. Creative Writing, Adv. Composition

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Imagery, a writers’ support group; Escape, annual art and literary magazine

HOMETOWN:  Big Rapids, Michigan, home of the BRHS Cardinals and the FSU Bulldogs

HOBBIES:  Reading, writing, art of all kinds, travel, exercise, biking, film

MEMORABLE/INFLUENTIAL BOOKS:

FICTION—This is a bit like falling into a black hole, but . . . here’s a start . . . .

• Little Women—Louisa May Alcott
• Peter Pan—J. M. Barrie
• My Antonia—Willa Cather
• Death Comes for the Archbiship—Willa Cather
• Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen
• For Whom the Bell Tolls—Ernest Hemingway
• David Copperfield—Charles Dickens
• The Grapes of Wrath—John Steinbeck
• The Metamorphosis—Franz Kafka
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
• The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sons and Lovers—D. H. Lawrence
• Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Thomas Hardy
• Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
• 1984—George Orwell
• Cry, the Beloved Country—Alan Patton
• Sophie’s Choice—William Styron
• Ragtime—E. L. Doctorow
• Snow Falling on Cedars—David Guterson
• Beloved—Toni Morrison
• The Color Purple—Alice Walker
• The House of Spirits—Isabel Allende
• The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood
• The Bohran Makers—John B. Keane 
• Atonement—Ian McEwan

RECENT READING: 

• Nervous Conditions—Tsitsi Dangarembga
• Loving Frank—Nancy Horan
• Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials—Marc Aronson
• Friday Night Lights—H. G. Bissinger
• The Spies of Warsaw—Alan Furst
• Under the Banner of Heaven—Jon Krakauer
• Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child—Elva Trevino Hart
• The Broken Shore—Peter Temple
• Forgetfulness—Ward Just
• Telex from Cuba—Rachel Kushner

ESPECIALLY MEMORABLE: 

• Say You’re One of Them—Uwem Akpan

Currently Reading:

• The Glass Castle—Jeannette Walls
• The Gathering—Anne Enright
• Dreams from My Father—Barack Obama