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Rien Fertel

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New Orleans, St. Martinville
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Visiting Professor of History @Tulane. Author of 4 books, most recently: a human history of the Brown Pelican. I before E. rienfertel@gmail.com

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This New Orleans author seeks to give a voice to marginalized and forgotten individuals

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By Rien Fertel 
| The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
The New Orleans-based investigative journalist and historian Robert W. Fiesler is quickly building a dynamic and laureled career uncovering forgotten stories of ordinary individuals confronted — one might say trapped — by extraordinary circumstances.
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This New Orleans author seeks to give a voice to marginalized and forgotten individuals

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By Rien Fertel 
| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
The New Orleans-based investigative journalist and historian Robert W. Fiesler is quickly building a dynamic and laureled career uncovering forgotten stories of ordinary individuals confronted — one might say trapped — by extraordinary circumstances.
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Author Jesmyn Ward's words offer a literary life raft in times of despair and hopelessness Original

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By Rien Fertel 
| The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
“On Witness and Respair,” by Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, 256 pages. Jesmyn Ward remembers seeing the Mississippi Literary Map on the wall of her elementary school library. Iconic names and faces — Faulkner, Welty and Wright — staring out from the confines of a state that might have then ranked last in the nation among most childhood education and well-being indicators but punched above its weight when it came to literature.
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