Background
Mrs. Bledsoe was born in Portland, Oregon, United States, on February 1, 1957. She is the daughter of John P. and Helen (Wieman) Bledsoe.
Lucy Bledsoe
880 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
From 1975 to 1977 Lucy Bledsoe studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.
101 Durant Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
In 1979 Lucy Bledsoe studied at the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States.
101 Durant Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
In 1979 Lucy Bledsoe studied at the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States.
880 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
From 1975 to 1977 Lucy Bledsoe studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.
(At the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offer...)
At the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offered a job seemingly too good to pass up. However, there are risks. Her scientific knowledge and editorial skills are unparalleled, but her personal life might not withstand government scrutiny. Leaving behind the wreckage of a relationship, Lucybelle finds solace in working for the visionary scientist who is extracting the first-ever polar ice cores. The lucidity of ice is calming and beautiful. But the joyful pangs of a new love clash with the impossible compromises of queer life. If exposed, she could lose everything she holds dear. Based on the hidden life of the author’s aunt and namesake, A Thin Bright Line is a love story set amid Cold War intrigue, the origins of climate research, and the nascent civil rights movement. Poignant, brilliant, and moving, it reminds us to act on what we love, not just wish for it. "It triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances."—New York Times Book Review “Bledsoe covers a lot of ground here, imagining her intellectual aunt’s relationship to the queer cultural transformations of the 1950s, as well as the paranoia of the Cold War era.”—San Francisco Chronicle At the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offered a job seemingly too good to pass up. However, there are risks. Her scientific knowledge and editorial skills are unparalleled, but her personal life might not withstand government scrutiny. Leaving behind the wreckage of a relationship, Lucybelle finds solace in working for the visionary scientist who is extracting the first-ever polar ice cores. The lucidity of ice is calming and beautiful. But the joyful pangs of a new love clash with the impossible compromises of queer life. If exposed, she could lose everything she holds dear. Based on the hidden life of the author’s aunt and namesake, A Thin Bright Line is a love story set amid Cold War intrigue, the origins of climate research, and the nascent civil rights movement. Poignant, brilliant, and moving, it reminds us to act on what we love, not just wish for it. "It triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances."—New York Times Book Review “Bledsoe covers a lot of ground here, imagining her intellectual aunt’s relationship to the queer cultural transformations of the 1950s, as well as the paranoia of the Cold War era.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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(Selected as the next child star for an on-line travel vid...)
Selected as the next child star for an on-line travel video, twelve-year-old Victoria is thrilled about her upcoming expedition to Antarctica, but things don't go as she had expected and she now must make the most of a bad situation that is sure to cause damage to the local environment.
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(For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a sourc...)
For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts Bledsoe’s wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace. These are Bledsoe’s gripping tales of fending off wolves in Alaska, encountering UFOs in the Colorado Desert, and searching for mountain lions in Berkeley. Her memorable story “The Breath of Seals” takes readers to Antarctica, the wildest continent on earth, where she camped out with geologists, biologists, and astrophysicists. These fresh and deeply personal narratives remind us what it means to be simply one member of one species, trying to find food and shelter—and moments of grace—on our planet.
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(BJ's mother is short. Mom is an abstract painter who runs...)
BJ's mother is short. Mom is an abstract painter who runs an arty café. BJ, however, takes after her missing father. Just twenty-one, she’s a college basketball player who lives and breathes the game. High tops and hoops occupy her every waking moment. When she accidentally discovers her dad, a shadowy presence throughout her whole life, she suspects her best friends may actually be closer than she thinks—are they her sisters? Maybe there is more family she’s never met! BJ just wants to keep her mind on the game. BJ's mother is short. Mom is an abstract painter who runs an arty café. BJ, however, takes after her missing father. Just twenty-one, she’s a college basketball player who lives and breathes the game. High tops and hoops occupy her every waking moment. When she accidentally discovers her dad, a shadowy presence throughout her whole life, she suspects her best friends may actually be closer than she thinks—are they her sisters? Maybe there is more family she’s never met! BJ just wants to keep her mind on the game. Mom is an abstract painter who runs an arty café. BJ, however, takes after her missing father. Just twenty-one, she’s a college basketball player who lives and breathes the game. High tops and hoops occupy her every waking moment. When she accidentally discovers her dad, a shadowy presence throughout her whole life, she suspects her best friends may actually be closer than she thinks—are they her sisters? Maybe there is more family she’s never met!
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("I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christi...)
"I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, the narrator of critically acclaimed author Lucy Jane Bledsoe's newest novel. And Christine and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart Mark, has an outwardly perfect life, but her fierce control is beginning to falter. Christine, a doctor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district who is buried in her work, cannot connect meaningfully with any of the women with whom she falls in love. But the sisters share a secret, one that has bound them tightly to each other for 30 years. "Scanning the horizon for Timothy is almost an instinct with me," Christine reveals in the book's opening sentence. Timothy, her little brother, disappeared 30 years ago while she and Liz were supposed to be watching him, and their guilt over this event and the lies they have almost come to believe have haunted both sisters throughout their lives. On a winter expedition in California's Sierra Nevada mountains with Liz, Mark, their current juvenile delinquent charge Lenny, and Mark's assistant Melody, an undercurrent of tension bursts into open hostility when a sudden storm traps them on the mountain. Through Lucy Jane Bledsoe's graceful writing, the -sisters' lifetime of deception is gradually and heartbreakingly revealed, and finally, in this harsh and dangerous environment, secrets are exposed and lies give way to the kind of healing truth that provides a possibility for hope. Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of Working Parts, winner of the American Library Association Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Award for literature, and Sweat: Stories and A Novella, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She has been published in Newsday and Ms. among others, and teaches in the master's of creative writing program at the University of San Francisco.
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(In a story that is part memoir, part survival tips, and p...)
In a story that is part memoir, part survival tips, and part curiosities, the author lets readers vicariously experience her adventures while on exploration in Antarctica.
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(Convinced that her babysitter failed to show up one night...)
Convinced that her babysitter failed to show up one night because something terrible had happened, Erin begins a search with her friend Tiffany, following tracks in the snow through the forest, until a blizzard strikes, and the girls become snowbound.
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(Lori Taylor is a top-notch bicycle mechanic and a smart w...)
Lori Taylor is a top-notch bicycle mechanic and a smart woman with well-oiled charisma. And, she cannot read. Her best fried Mickey is long on literacy but comes up short in matters of love. The two friends enter into a pact that leads to dangerous emotional territory. But as they negotiate the rough ride of personal growth, the mutual dream that drives them begins to unravel... Working Parts is an exceptional novel that taps the essence of friendship and the potential unleashed when we face our most intense fears.
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(After hearing that people are planning to kill a mountain...)
After hearing that people are planning to kill a mountain lion in the wilds near her neighborhood, twelve-year-old Izzie decides that it is her duty to protect the animal.
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Mrs. Bledsoe was born in Portland, Oregon, United States, on February 1, 1957. She is the daughter of John P. and Helen (Wieman) Bledsoe.
Lucy Bledsoe attended Williams College during 1975-1977. She graduated from University of California at Berkeley with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979.
Mrs. Bledsoe worked at Martin Luther King Junior High, Berkeley, CA, in California Poets in the Schools residency in 1990. She was a facilitator of Tenderloin Women Writers Workshop, San Francisco, CA, from 1990 to 1992. Lucy Bledsoe was a script and story writer at George Lucas Education Foundation, Skywalker Ranch, Marin County, CA, since 1992. Between 1992 and 1995 she acted as a textbook and story writer at Globe Book Company, Paramus, NJ. Later she worked as a writer and conducted creative writing workshops for adult literacy programs in Richmond, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, CA.
Lucy Bledsoe has travelled to Antarctica three times and written three books about Antarctica, How to Survive in Antarctica, The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic, and The Big Bang Symphony.
(Determined to make the A-Team, a new basketball team for ...)
(Selected as the next child star for an on-line travel vid...)
(Convinced that her babysitter failed to show up one night...)
(In a story that is part memoir, part survival tips, and p...)
(After hearing that people are planning to kill a mountain...)
("I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christi...)
(At the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offer...)
(Lori Taylor is a top-notch bicycle mechanic and a smart w...)
(For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a sourc...)
(Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after ...)
(Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C., ...)
(BJ's mother is short. Mom is an abstract painter who runs...)
Quotations:
"My primary motivation for writing is to make sense of the world. Creating — stories, paintings, dance, music, art of any kind — is the only way I know how to combat forces of destruction and feelings of alienation."
"I am also motivated to write as a way to explore topics that intrigue me. For example, most of the stories in my first book. Sweat, are about the relationship between the body and language. They are about sport, wilderness, survival, crossing boundaries, and sex, but more importantly, they are about how our deepest understanding of life comes from our bodies, from the centers of our cells. While Sweat is often about the limits of language, my novel Working Parts is a celebration of the vast possibilities of language."
"I read widely and am influenced by everything I read. Each month I have different favorite authors, both contemporary and classic. I teach creative writing classes in literacy — that’s literacy, not literary — programs, and I sincerely believe adults who are learning to read and write for the first time are the best writing teachers I have had. They teach me about the bones of language and about the absolute necessity of a story."
"I write fiction every day and all morning. I am not an outline writer, though I usually try to write a string of scenes before beginning a first draft. (These synopses always change drastically in the course of writing a story or book.) Then I write the first draft pretty much all the way through. The real work begins after the first draft is complete. I rewrite a tremendous amount: every story or chapter goes through dozens of drafts."
"I am also inspired by courageous people and nutty people, and most of all, by people who are both."
