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Article: VICK'S PICKS
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- Dayton Daily News
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- May 31, 2009
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EDITORS NOTE: We asked "Book Nook" coliumnist Vick Mikunas to
give us his short list of the Miami Valley's best authors. Here are
his top five.
Allan W. Eckert
BELLEFONTAINE
About the author: Eckert has been a nominee for the Pulitzer
Prize for Literature seven times. A prolific author of fiction and
nonfiction, he wrote the play "Tecumseh!"
Other works of note include: "The Frontiersman," "Incident at
Hawk's Hill," "That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio
River Valley" and "A Time of Terror -- The Great Dayton Flood"
School," "The Courage To Write" and "The Quote Verifier"
Ann Hagedorn
RIPLEY About the author: Hagedorn is a native Daytonian. A former
investigative reporter ...