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Darlene O'Dell
Darlene ODell is a writer and teacher who lives in North Carolina. She is the author of The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven (Seabury Books, 2014), Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of ...view moreDarlene ODell is a writer and teacher who lives in North Carolina. She is the author of The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven (Seabury Books, 2014), Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray (University of Virginia Press, 2001), and I Followed Close Behind Her (Spinsters Ink, 2003).She has been published in Cobblestone, Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, National Catholic Reporter, Patheos, Pearson’s Custom Guide to American Literature, Hashtag Queer, and The Journal of Southern History. She was the head writer for the National Park Service’s Jamestown Archeology: A Teacher’s Guide and has appeared on NPR’s Interfaith Voices and given talks or appeared on panels in Washington, D.C., Blacksburg (VA), in Charlotte, Asheville, Winston-Salem, and Brevard (NC), Clinton (SC), and Knoxville (TN).She taught at Clemson University and the College of William and Mary and, in 2014, founded Freewrite Fridays in Brevard, North Carolina. She has taught multiple writing workshops for both children and adults, is currently a writer for the Family Narrative Project, and has recently completed a memoir, Men of Respectability. See her Dr. Dar's Freewriting Prompts series on Amazon.Purchase her ebook, The Red Hen Diner (a mystery for 8-11 year olds) here on Smashwords and visit darleneodell.com for more on The Red Hen Diner.Selected reviews of The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven:The National Catholic Reporter called The Philadelphia Eleven “excellent storytelling” and a “narrative that draws deep meaning out of the movement.” Bernard Palmer of The Church Times in London wrote, “Her book makes for enthralling reading. . . . O’Dell certainly has the novelist’s gift of making her story come alive and in maintaining her readers’ interest, even though they already know how it will end.”Reviewer Mary E. Hunt, founder of Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, called the book “a needed history and a brilliantly told tale.” And Dan Carter, author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, wrote, “With the gifts of a scholar and novelist, Darlene O’Dell has told the story of the Philadelphia Eleven. . . .”view less