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If I Live to Be 100 is based on One Hundred Years of Stories, a series of profiles of American centenarians, which Ellis produced and which aired in 2000 on NPR's Morning Edition. There are now more 100-year-olds alive than at any other time in history, and longevity studies are finding many of them are active, healthy and engaged with the world around them. Neenah Ellis set out to meet these people and to hear what insights, memories, wisdom and just plain common sense tips they have to offer. What she's found will surprise you. The original radio profiles will be intercut with Ellis's reading of her book. If I Live to be 100 is not simply a transcript of the radio series, but about how the experience of meeting and talking with these amazing centenarians affected the author.

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Neenah Ellis graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with a degree in journalism. She is an independent producer and writer, and the winner of three prestigious Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting. She has spent twenty-five years making documentaries on a variety of subjects in the United States and abroad. Neenah Ellis graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with a degree in journalism. She is an independent producer and writer, and the winner of three prestigious Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting. She has spent twenty-five years making documentaries on a variety of subjects in the United States and abroad. HarperCollins Publishers is a proud supporter of First Book, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their own new books. The primary goal of First Book is to work with existing literacy programs to distribute new books to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books. In this way, First Book effectively leverages the heroic efforts of local tutoring, mentoring, and family literacy organizations as they work to reach children who need help the most. First Book distributes millions of books to hundreds of thousands of children nationwide each year. For more information on First Book, please visit www.firstbook.org.

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