Denise Donnelly

Background

Denise was born on June 18, 1956 in Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States. She is the daughter of Thomas James (an attorney) and Raffaela (a homemaker) Donnelly.

Education

Denise studied at Wesleyan University, Middletown and received her Bachelor of Arts in 1978. She also finished the University of Missouri - Columbia with a Master of Arts in 1989.

Career

Denise started to work as a teacher at Tufts University, Medford and held that position during 1989-90. Then, she moved to the University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany where she also was a teacher. During 1992-96 she was a writer and consultant at William M. Mercer, Boston. From 1996 she held the same positions at Buck Consultants, Boston.

In 1998 she wrote her first work Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir, it was prepared togerher with her brother, Michael Donnelly. He was a former F-16 pilot and career Air Force officer and was diagnosed with ALS in 1995, four years after the end of the Persian Gulf war, in which he completed forty-four combat missions. “My brother’s rapidly declining health and a terrible feeling of powerlessness in the face of wave after wave of bureaucratic lies combined to cure my procrastination. Michael and I decided to write his story, not as a polemic, but simply as one man’s truth. Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir is the result.''

Achievements

• Denise Donnelly is a well-known author of famous book, Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. It was a true story of her brother Michael Donnelly. Besides, she was a respected teacher at Tufts University, University of Potsdam.

Works

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• book

  • Falcon's Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir

    (When Major Michael Donnelly was instructing his U.S. Air ...)

    1998

Views

Quotations: “My brother allowed me to fulfill my lifelong dream of being a writer. In do doing, he gave me a sense of mission and a truly meaningful purpose in my life. Through him and his great sacrifice, I have been able to make a small difference in the lives of some of the brave men and women who served this country in war and were then discarded.”

Interests

• swimming

Connections

Father:

Thomas James Donnelly

Mother:

Raffaela Donnelly

Brother:

Michael Donnelly

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 184
  2000