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D.C. (Dolly) Force grew up in Wisconsin where she received her
Bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
after twenty years in business and free-lance writing, she
moved to North Carolina where she earned a Masters in English
at Western Carolina. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and
Sigma Tau Delta Honor Societies. Combining her creative
writing skills with her passion for history, she now launches
a very promising career as a historical novelist.
"Though this is her first novel, Ms. Force doesn't
write like a beginner. She writes with a sure hand
and has a sharp eye for detail and historical accuracy...
Like Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Morrison's
Beloved, and, especially, Sula, Force's novel is big and
bold and crackles like lightning, illuminating whole decades,
half-generations at a time, between each of the nine eleven-year
gaps of its narrative. And, like John Jakes' popular American
Bicentennial Series, the story is multi-generational, is
historically accurate, and is true in the sense that all really
good fiction is."
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-- James Addison, PhD
Professor of English
Director of English Graduate Program,
Western Carolina University |
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