Sherry Jones | Red Room Writer Profile

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Author of "The Jewel of Medina" and the sequel, "The Sword of Medina," scheduled for U.S. publication in Oct.
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Vanity Fair, Music and Silence, The Satanic Verses, A Secret History of Love, Victory over Japan, Restoration, The Brothers Karamazov, The Hidden Hand, Frankenstein, The House of Mirth, The Red and the Black, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Grendel, The Sea, the Sea, Tales of Burning Love, Pride and Prejudice, The Women's Room, The Beauty Myth

iris Murdoch, Eudora Welty, Ellen Gilchrist, William Faulkner, Salman Rushdie, Rose Tremain, Leo Tolstoy, Naomi Wolf, Kenan Malik, Sena Jeter Naslund, Fatima Mernissi

"The Known World" by Edward P. Jones, "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld, "Lolita," "The Golden Notebook," biographies and histories for my next novel.

Connections

Fort Hood: Islamophobia Is the Wrong Response
November 7, 2009
- Dear Reader, What’s in a name? If Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s name were “Smith,” we’d be talking about him as a soldier who snapped under pressure, a lone gunman whose fear of deployment to Afghanistan sent him over the deep end -- as fear tends to do. Predictably, however, within minutes after we learned that the gunman in Thursday’s Fort Hood, Texas massacre was named ...
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Multi-Tasking: It's Not Just for Teens
November 5, 2009
- Dear Reader,These days, I find juggling is a useful skill for furthering my career. Filling the blanks left by my publisher's decision to focus on national publicity for "The Sword of Medina" and let me handle the rest could fill all my time. I'm setting up readings and booksignings, blogging, making videos, searching the Web daily for new articles, reviews, and blogs to post on my ...
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The only thing to fear...
November 2, 2009
- I was alarmed by news reports of two Chicago men arrested in connection with a Pakistani plot to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and Flemming Rose, the culture editor at Jyllands-Posten. One of the men allegedly wrote in a Yahoo! chat that he was “disposed toward violence” toward these men and toward me because of my books, “The Jewel of Medina” and “The Sword of ...
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