To Kill A Mockingbird Panelist Biographies

 

Panelist Biographies 

The To Kill A Mockingbird Panel Discussion will be held at Cadbury at Lewes at 7:30 PM Saturday, August 4.


Maribeth Fischer’s literary essays have appeared in The Iowa Review and The Yale Review, and have twice been cited as notable in Robert Atwan's Best American Essays. She received a Pushcart Prize for her essay Stillborn, as well as a Smart Family Prize for her essay Lottery.Her first novel, The Language of Goodbye, was awarded Virginia Commonwealth University's First Novel Award for 2002. Her second novel,The Life You Longed For, which was cited by The Library Journal as “a perfect book-group selection has already sold in five foreigncountries. She lives in coastal Delaware. In addition to founding the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild and serving as executive director of the annual Writers at the Beach: Pure Sea Glass Writing Conference, she teaches workshops in writing and is busy at work on her third novel.

 

Henry J. Evans Jr. is a reporter for the Cape Gazette, a twice-weekly newspaper covering the Cape Region. He started reporting in 1988 with the Pacific Daily News, a Gannett newspaper based on Guam, covering the Western Pacific Region. Before coming to the Cape Gazette in 2004, Evans worked as a radio news reporter, freelance magazine writer and television news assignment editor. He attended Cape Henlopen High School and the University of Delaware. Evans lives where he grew up, near Milton.

 

 A native of Pennsylvania, Sandy Browning, has lived in the Cape region for almost 40 years. She taught secondary French and English in Sussex County for 32 years and was a Fulbright Exchange teacher in France for one year. Sandy now works at the Lewes Public Library as Circulation Manager and also enjoys participating in the Southern Delaware Choral Society. To Kill A Mockingbird has always been one of her favorite novels.

 

Sharon Hoover has spent her working life teaching and working with children and students from pre-school to retirement home folks. Most of the teaching has been about the American language, its writing, and its literature. Her official title is professor emeritus of English from Alfred University, a state-private school of liberal arts, art, and ceramic engineering located in New York State.

 

Kathleen M. Jennings is a partner at Aaronson, Collins & Jennings, LLC.  She has extensive experience in criminal and white collar defense, regulatory enforcement and civil matters.  Prior to entering private practice, Kathy served as Chief Deputy Attorney General and State Prosecutor with the Delaware Attorney General’s Office where she tried more than 100 jury and bench trials as a criminal prosecutor, including successfully prosecuting several high-profile cases involving individuals linked to organized crime and serial murders.  Since entering private practice, Kathy has defended people accused of crime, successfully gaining a dismissal in a first degree murder case.  In that case, the client shot his father, who was attacking his mother.  The client is remarkably like Boo Radley.  

Kathy is a native of Wilmington, Delaware and would like someday to retire to Lewes, where she visits frequently. 

 

 

 

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