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Furies' Daughters: Four Feisty Women. The four stories in this book present four strong female characters. Jenny Gets Her Wheels On is the story of a wheelchair-bound comedian who fights for her place in the spotlight. The Girl with the Topaz Ring is a mystery rom-com in which a woman shows she's better than who sits at an office computer. The Ongoing Life of Margot Macomber imagines the events immediately after Margo shoots her husband in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the Hemingway story, Thea and Fritz: Berlin 1931-1933 traces three years in the lives of Germany's famous screenwriter/director team, Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang, who created the films, Metropolis and M.

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Preface Jenny Gets Her Wheels On The Girl with the Topaz Ring The Ongoing Life of Margo Macomber Thea and Fritz: Berlin 1931-1933 Photo Author's Bio

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Gary Carr is an author and playwright. Published work includes a book on one of the blacklisted ""Hollywood Ten,"" The Screenwriting of John Howard Lawson, published by UMI Press, Ann Arbor, and a collection of short fiction, The Girl Who Founded Nebraska, published by EXIT Press, San Francisco. Recent plays include Love in the Time of Covid, a comedy about a family trying to live together during the plague, and Phillis Wheatley: The Poet Who Wrote Her Way Out of Slavery, about the 18th Century American writer. Many of his short stories have appeared in print and online magazines, including History Through Fiction magazine, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, Lightwood, and The Metaworker. His plays and screenplays have been produced in California and Texas, several of which have won national awards.He has been a university teacher, co-owner of a film production company and a comedy club, corporate communications director, and publicist. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, an M.A. from Ohio University, and a Ph.D. in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to moving from California to Texas in 2022 with his late wife, Kathy, he was the owner of a San Francisco Bay Area publicity firm that specialized in arts and entertainment. He lives in north Texas.

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