Jill Coupe, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/coupjill/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:39:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Interracial Friendship in Fiction By Jill McCroskey Coupe https://booksbywomen.org/interracial-friendship-in-fiction-by-jill-mccroskey-coupe/ https://booksbywomen.org/interracial-friendship-in-fiction-by-jill-mccroskey-coupe/#respond Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:31:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=35080 In my novel Beginning with Cannonballs, two infant girls, Hanna and Gail, share a crib in Gail’s parents’ house, where Hanna’s mother is the live-in maid. This is in the 1940s in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, where I grew up. Despite having to attend different schools, the girls become close childhood friends. After that, it’s not […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/interracial-friendship-in-fiction-by-jill-mccroskey-coupe/feed/ 0 35080 Five Books by Women Writers I’ve Read More Than Once And Why https://booksbywomen.org/five-books-by-women-writers-ive-read-at-least-twice/ https://booksbywomen.org/five-books-by-women-writers-ive-read-at-least-twice/#respond Tue, 26 May 2020 05:19:39 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29168 By Jill McCroskey Coupe, author of BEGINNING WITH CANNONBALLS Psyche: The Feminine Poetic Consciousness, An Anthology of Modern American Women Poets, edited by Barbara Segnitz and Carol Rainey. Dell Publishing Co., 1973. During my first bumbling attempts at creative writing, I devoured this book. I underlined important sections in the Introduction and marked passages in […]

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