JUDITH KIRSCHT, AUTHOR
About Me
I have tried to capture, in my novels, what it is like to live through the upheavals of social change in the America of the last sixty years. I abhor the rigid dogmas of both left and right which have polarized our country and sent truth into hiding; these are stories of the human heart in conflict. For me, that is what it means to be an American.
FROM MY BLOG
Holiday Wishes
Wishing you a peaceful holiday and a New Year with lots of reading time! ...
Race in America: Stuck in a Rut
I watch the Ferguson protests and feel very old, very frustrated, and very discouraged. I watched the same explosions and protests in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The same explosion of despair and rage, the same fear and panic, the same, the same, the...
Love in the Northwest: Mary Trimble’s Maureen
After two successful memoirs, Mary Trimble returns to fiction in MAUREEN, a story of loss and recovery. For readers who love being carried deep to the setting of the story, this novel is a winner. Trimble’s deep love of the Northwest which shines through...
Shadow of the Wind: a Story for the Stouthearted
For those who love the ghosts lying deep in the heart of old European cities, Carlos Ruiz Zapon’s Shadow of the Wind is not to be missed. I had just begun reading this book when a writer acquaintance told me she loved the story so much she […]
From Writer to Author
The Path from Writer to Author Many writers claim they only write for themselves. I was one of those once, chiefly because the whole notion of being published was beyond the power of my imagination. However, the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Awards, won by authors...
Becoming A Writer by Judith Kirscht, Author of The Inheritors
The story of Judith Kirscht, author of The Inheritors and Nowhere Else to Go, becoming a writer.
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