AUTHOR WILL ADDRESS GENEALOGY SOCIETY.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Author Carolyn Howard-Johnson Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of This Is the Place, a winner of eight awards, and "Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered," the winner of three including the Red Sky Press Award and WordThunder's Award of Excellence. will be the guest speaker at the Antelope Valley Genealogical Society meeting March 12, speaking about ``Bringing the Dead to Life with Genealogy.'' Howard-Johnson grew up in Utah and wrote for her high school and college newspapers. She was a staff writer for The Salt Lake Tribune and an editorial assistant for Good Housekeeping in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . She continued her writing career as a publicity writer and free-lancer in the world of high fashion, with articles for Christian Dior and Ingenue in·gé·nue also in·ge·nue n. 1. A naive, innocent girl or young woman. 2. a. The role of an ingénue in a dramatic production. b. An actress playing such a role. magazines. A graduate of the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission with post-graduate work in writing at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , her first novel, ``This is the Place,'' was released last summer. Currently she lives in Glendale and writes a free-lance fashion column for local newspapers as well as occasional society pieces and movie reviews. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Palmdale Cultural Center, 704 E. Palmdale Blvd. For more information call (661) 943-4132. |
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