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Article: Sizzling scribes in Concord? Author Susan Cheever adds women to mix.(PEOPLE)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- January 9, 2007
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Byline: Pamela H. Sacks
COLUMN: SPEAKING VOLUMES
The prolific writer Susan Cheever has penned memoirs, novels and a biography. She has written about her famous father, the novelist and short story writer John Cheever. She has described her own tumultuous life and drawn a vivid portrait of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
But, Cheever says, no topic has proved as captivating as that of her new nonfiction book "American Bloomsbury Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work." (Simon & Schuster, $26)
"Of all the books I've ...