North Carolina Authors, Elaine Orr and Nancy Stolfo Corti Talk Memoirs with Stacey Cochran

Saturday January 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, Nancy Stolfo Corti and Elaine Orr, two Raleigh-based authors, both with extended time living overseas, will talk about writing their memoirs, with author and host, Stacey Cochran.
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The Other Side of Tuscany
The Other Side of Tuscany
Jan. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Newly published author, Nancy Stolfo Corti will join NC State Professor and author Elaine Orr on a panel about how to write a memoir, hosted by Raleigh Write to Publish's Stacey Cochran at Quail Ridge Books.

Stolfo Corti's book, The Other Side of Tuscany,  focuses primarily on her adult life, with years in Tuscany married to an Italian, followed by years in North Carolina in another home, far from her husband.  Orr's book, Gods of the Noonday, focuses on her childhood upbringing in Nigeria, "A White Girl's African Life," and reconciling her exile from her childhood home as an adult.

Both authors are thoughtful and poetic and include dreams in their story. Both share rich cross-cultural and intra-cultural insight from their different lives overseas, the complexities of identity and home, belonging and longing.

Elaine Orr recounts a recurring dream of being in Nigeria, while she lives in North Carolina, "I am home here, in the dream where the sky and the ground come together under my skin and run through me like blood."

Stolfo Corti writes that home is in the soul, "We knew then what many never accept, that our home is laid in our souls; geography can start and end in our minds regardless of ever being there."

Elaine Orr's book, Gods of the Noonday was published in 2003 while Nancy Stolfo Corti first published her book The Other Side of Tuscany in November, 2009.

The event will take place shortly after 6:30 pm at Quail Ridge Books on Wade Avenue in Raleigh, North Carolina. Reservations can be made at the Raleigh Write to Publish Meetup site. http://writers.meetup.com/500/calendar/12084700/
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