The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418   Message #2323294
Posted By: Amos
22-Apr-08 - 11:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
If, like me, you didn't know who TTW is, a brief excerpt from her Wikipedia entry:

Williams is best known for her book "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" published in 1991. The book interweaves memoir and natural history, recounting her mother's battle with ovarian cancer along with the concurrent flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, a place special to Williams since childhood. The book's epilogue, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women," explores whether the high incidence of cancer in her family might be due to their status as downwinders during the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 60s.
Her work as an editor on "Testimony: Writers Speak On Behalf of Utah Wilderness" included assembling twenty American writers to write on the significance of protecting the wilderness. This book was held up as an influence at the dedication ceremony of the new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument at the Grand Canyon in 1996.
Among her other books are "Pieces of White Shell," "An Unspoken Hunger," "Leap," "Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert," and "The Open Space of Democracy." She also has written two natural history books for children.

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