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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Barber
JUDITH KRUMMECK is a writer, broadcaster, and immigrant. Her debut novel, The Deceived Ones, a contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and was long-listed for The Somerset Maugham Award. Her biographical memoir, Old New Wo...
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From Purcell’s opera The Fairy Queen to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music & Leonard... Learn More
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There's a first time for everything, right?! The folks who are distributing my audiobook sent me this offer to share with you, and I hope it will pique your interest as much as it did mine. Here i... Learn More
You know Claire McCardell through ballet flats, mix-and-match separates, pockets, zippers, leggings, and more, yet she remains the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of. Elizabe... Learn More
"The shell must break before the bird can fly.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson As I continue to live my life like a bee in a bottle, my beloved life partner sat me down the other day to suggest that I... Learn More
Debut Novel
The Deceived OnesDisplaced by the Russian invasion, Vira, carrying little but her precious viola da gamba, is a refugee in the Uniting for Ukraine program. When she is physically attacked soon after her arrival in the United States, the terrifying experience prompts her to hide in plain sight by passing as her tw...
Biographical Memoir
Old New Worlds: A Tale of Two ImmigrantsOld New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa's Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah b...
Memoir-in-Essays
Beyond the BaobabThe immigrant experience is one that has preoccupied the psyche of America from the settlements of early colonies in the 17th century to the debates about the Dream Act in our own century. Over time, the marvelous conglomeration of British, European, Asian, African, and Hispanic cultures have wov...
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