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Diane Scharper

  • Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Osher Program and Contributor, Freelance
Baltimore
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Covers:  Biography, Literary Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry. i also edit medical articles focusing on vision problems and surgery.
Doesn't Cover: I cover all topics but specialize in biography, memoir, literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. If a memoirist can write about a topic, I cover it.
Author, Poet, Book Critic. Editor, English professor Johns Hopkins Osher Program.

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C. Diane Scharper
dianes1420@yahoo.com
dscharper@gmail.com
cscharp2@alumn.jh.edu

Education

Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Master of Arts in Poetics, 1972,
Master's Thesis: Poems

College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Arts, English Major, Writing Concentration
Bachelor's Thesis: Poems

Catholic University, Washington D.C.
Credits toward an M.A. in Religion
Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore Maryland
Credits toward M.A. in Sacred S…

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TRENDING NOW

TRENDING NOW

Novelist Maggie O'Farrell always wanted to write the story of her great-great-grandfather, who lived in Irela…

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A lost art

A lost art

In Vermeer, A Life Lost and Found, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon tries to fathom this enigmatic master pa…

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In full Blume - Review of Judy Blume: A Life

In full Blume - Review of Judy Blume: A Life

Mark Oppenheimer explores the iconic childrens' author's life in chapters that connect events she lived throu…

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MEMOIR CAN'T FIND CLEAR TRUTH AMID LIES

MEMOIR CAN'T FIND CLEAR TRUTH AMID LIES

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: Sunday, July 30, 1995 TAG: 950727…

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Troubling stories

Troubling stories

While the Troubles form the background for Every One Still Here, the six stories within the collection offer …

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Maggie O’Farrell’s land before time

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Novelist Maggie O’Farrell always wanted to write the story of her great-great-grandfather, who lived in Ireland and worked for the Ordinance Survey, Britain’s mapping service, in the 1850s. And now she has.
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A lost art

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Vermeer, A Life Lost and Found; By Andrew Graham-Dixon; W.W. Norton; 416 pp., $45.00 Take Vermeer’s “View of Delft,” for example. The red-tiled roofs, according to Graham-Dixon, seem to glisten after rain. Dark clouds scudding out of the picture make way for the blue sky and white clouds while the sun illuminates several buildings in the city of Delft, including a church tower and the roof of a house. Graham-Dixon argues that this painting is not a mere cityscape.
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In full Blume — Review of Judy Blume: A Life

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By Diane Scharper
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Mark Oppenheimer is an unabashed Judy Blume fan. He admits that Blume’s language could be more vivid and her plots less predictable — Blume herself says as much about her writing — But he admires Blume’s ear for dialogue and is drawn to her honesty, warmth, and the cathartic nature of her work. He also thinks some of her critics are overreacting and should give Blume and her millions of readers a break. That’s the trajectory of his latest book and first biography, Judy Blume: A Life.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I started by reviewing books for the Baltimore Sun.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

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