Cheryl Hagedorn - Illinois Author
May 4th, 2007 |
Okay, so I couldn’t bring myself to do another fake interview. You know, the type where I write the questions AND the answers.
My novel, PARK RIDGE: A Senior Center Murder, is the tale of four elderly pinochle players, two men, two women, who play cards every day, all day, at the neighborhood senior drop-in center. After years of being told to get off their whats-its and do something other than play cards, they do. They begin killing off the people who irritate them. |
Midwest Book Reviews: “PD James type of psychological mystery” and “Human nature drives her plot, and one can imagine the seething resentments, even in a place that should be completely non-threatening. But there’s the rub. Take a seemingly neutral environment and add passion and cruelty, and one has an excellent plot.”
Reader Views: “This book is uproarious!” and “Cheryl Hagedorn’s Park Ridge is a delightful murder mystery. The plot is interesting and not only held my attention but also was extremely funny.”
Excerpts: Chapters 1 & 2 (first murder); Chapter 4 (where the romance begins)
Discussion Questions: for use with book clubs and discussion groups
Available as an Ebook, $8.95 or trade paperback, $14.95.
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| I thought instead that I’d give you a peek at some of my professors from graduate school. As some of you may already know, I got my masters in Writing at DePaul University in 2005. |  |
| I had Peter Vandenberg for three classes: Modern Rhetoric, Autobiography, and Composition Theory. Two projects ended up online: Cartoons for Comp Theory and The Metaphor of War and The Salvation Army for Mod Rhet. |  http://condor.depaul.edu/~pvandenb/ |
 Photo by Linc Cohen http://slwisenberg.blogspot.com/ |
S.L. Wisenberg taught The Urban Essay. Out of this came a series of anecdotes about my riding on the Chicago Transit Authority. I posted one of them. |
| Eric Murphy Selinger was a treat in Teaching Poetry. He has an active Yahoo group called SaySomethingWonderful about poetry and teaching poetry. He also has a blog (actually he has many!) about poetry. |  |
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David Jolliffe left DePaul for the Brown Chair at the University of Arkansas. I was lucky to take one of the last classes he taught, Teaching Writing. Track him down here. |
| Michele Morano taught classes in Memoir, Narrative Shorts and History of the Essay. Perhaps the most memorable thing about memoir (get it?) is that Professor Morano had us do a book proposal, chapter outlines, etc. for a book of our own. Mine was one The Salvation Army. It had a gazillion chapters and only covered 1967-1984! |  Photo by Caryn Chaden michelemorano.com |
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Craig Sirles taught Structure of the English Language and we tree-diagrammed sentences until I couldn’t see straight. Is it easier than the diagramming I learned in school? Yeah, in a lot of ways. |
| Nobody can ever find a picture of Lucy. Why is that? I can’t even tell you the name of the class now, but it was about Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. And it changed my life forever.
After spending my Christmas break, enthralled with the research that I was doing on my own, I convinced Lucy to let me do an Independent Study under her supervision. I’m indebted to Lucy for two things in particular: my interest in Theodora Van Wagenen Ward (one of Dickinson’s early editors) and of course, Emily Dickinson. These two evolved into projects that are available on the web: Emily Dickinson Stuff and Dating the Manuscripts. |
Lucy Rinehart |
Tags: Senior Citizen, Seniors, Hagedorn, Mystery, Author, Illinois, DePaul University
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