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Amy hill hearth biography samples
Amy Hill Hearth
American journalist and author (born 1958)
Amy Hill Hearth (pronounced "Harth",[1] born April 10, 1958)[2] is an American journalist and author who focuses on uniquely American stories and perspectives from the past.
She is the author or co-author of eleven books,[3] beginning in 1993 with the oral historyHaving Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a New York Times bestseller for 117 weeks, according to its archives.[4] The book was adapted for Broadway in 1995 and for a film in 1999.[1]
An unusually versatile author, Hearth has published both fiction and nonfiction, and books for adults as well as children.
What her books all have in common is a fascination with American history. "Wherever Amy Hill Hearth turns her attention, history comes alive," author Peter Golden has said of Hearth.[5]
Departing from her non-fiction work, Hearth wrote her first novel, Miss Dreamsville and the Colli