Phyllis Theroux
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Phyllis Theroux

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Phyllis Theroux is an essayist, columnist, teacher and author. She is the critically acclaimed author of the memoir "California and Other States of Grace", two essay collections, Peripheral Visions" and "Nightlights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark", an anthology, "The Book of Eulogies", and a children's book, "Serefina Under the Circumstances". In 2002, a novella, "Giovanni's Light", was published at Christmas. Her newest book, "The Journal Keeper: A Memoir", will be published by Grove Atlantic in March 2010. A contributing essayist on the "Newshour with Jim Lehrer" from 1992 - 1996, Theroux's columns, op-ed pieces, reviews and feature stories have appeared in various newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune. In the l980's, she was a monthly columnist for Parents Magazine. In the l990's she wrote a monthly column for House Beautiful. Her essays continue to be anthologized in numerous collections. Following the publication of "The Book of Eulogies" in l997, Theroux created "The Great American Portraits Program", which was sponsored by the Library of Congress and toured various cities in the United States. She has been a guest professor and lecturer at numerous forums, colleges and universities. The founder of Nightwriters, which conducts writing and creativity seminars in the United States and abroad, Theroux occasionally conducts one-on-one editorial seminars with individual writers who come to spend time working in her writer's cottage in Ashland, Virginia. A community activist and educator she formed a non-profit organization, "Winners in Grade School", which was supported by a consortium of private schools to be partners in education with an inner=city elementary school. A graduate of Manhattanville College, with a B.A. in Philosophy,, she is currently at work upon a book about living in Washington, D. C. during the tumultuous years after Kennedy was assassinated, during hnson's troubled presidency, Nixon' sWatergate scandal, the anti=vietnam war protests, the rise of the Civil rights movement, and he launching of her career as a writer.
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