Alice Rene, columnist of Becoming Alice, will be actualization on The Authors Show radio through November 26, 2009.
As a six-year-old, a adolescent babe called Ilse watched Nazi soldiers advance down her artery in Vienna, Austria. It was the alpha of an adventure that would crop her to Riga, Latvia, and end in Portland, Oregon. Becoming Alice chronicles Rene’s Jewish family's agonizing escape and their attempt as immigrants to fit into the American landscape. The added problems of growing up aural a afflicted ancestors atramentous her adolescence and adolescence. Hoping to fit in with her classmates, Ilse afflicted her name to Alice, but it was not until she confused into a boarding abode in Berkeley, amidst by girls from a check of cultures, that she fabricated accord with her accurate identity.
“I wrote this book afterwards my grandson chose the Holocaust as his accountable for a chic appointment and interviewed me as allotment of his paper,” said Ms. Rene. “That accident triggered a anticipation in my apperception that conceivably I should address this adventure down so that it would not be absent with the access of time. I took some autograph classes and abutting a autograph accumulation in which we apprehend our work. The aboriginal abstract was accustomed so agilely by this accumulation that I set about accepting it edited, and eventually published. I am admiring that it has done so able-bodied in the marketplace.”
Becoming Alice has placed and has won abundant industry awards, the a lot of contempo accepting called Winner in the Hollywood Book Festival 2009 Contest, Teenage Category. It was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for 2008 in the Autobiography/Memoir Category; it was aswell a finalist in The Forward Magazine Book of the Year Award 2008 in the Autobiography/Memoir Category. The book took First Place in the Young Adult chic in the 2007 Reader Views Awards Program in 2007 and was a semi-finalist in the Autobiography/Memoir chic of the aforementioned year.
An abstract from the book advantaged the Camel Hair Coat was a finalist in the Southern California Genealogical Society Short Story Contest in 2007. Cashmere, addition excerpt, accustomed Honorable Mention in Byline Magazines 2008 Short Story Contest. The book was aswell called as a Publisher’s Choice Book by iUniverse in April 2007 and was called as a Star Book by iUniverse
in March of 2008.
“I am acutely beholden for all the awards Becoming Alice has garnered so far,” declared Ms. Rene, “and for the abounding absolute reviews I accept received.”
Ms. Rene is accessible speaking engagements and interviews. She can be contacted through her website, www.alicerene.com or application the advice below. Becoming Alice is accessible for acquirement online at www.iUniverse.com
Becoming Alice
iUniverse
ISBN 978-60528-021-9
Alice Rene grew up in Portland, Oregon and abounding Reed College afore affective to California area she accustomed a Master’s amount in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley. She formed as a Medical Caseworker at UC Hospital in San Francisco, teaching the abode agents the accent of amusing and affecting issues in compassionate and alleviative patients.
While adopting three children, Alice formed as a biking adviser with a appropriate absorption in packaging and convoying groups to alien adopted destinations. These trips were accurate on blur and apparent at schools, clubs, and clandestine acquisition for ball and educational purposes.
She began autograph actively afterwards a grandson interviewed her for a top academy history assignment. She accomplished again that her adventure ability be of absorption to a added audience. After belief the art and ability of autograph for several years, she wrote her memoir, Becoming Alice. She now lives in southern California with her bedmate and Golden Retriever.
Contact:
Alice Rene
www.alicerene.com
alicerene1@aol.com
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