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Penelope Ellen Niven (April 11, 1939 — August 28, 2014) was an American academic and biographer. As Penelope McJunkin, she worked at a Catholic school and multiple high schools by the late 1980s. During this time period, she worked for Earlham College and the University of Illinois, Urbana as part of the Sandburg Collection Development Project. As Penelope Niven, she was a fellow at Yale University during the mid 1990s. She also held writer-in-residence positions with Greensboro College and Salem College up to the 2000s. Apart from education, she processed Carl Sandburg's material at Connemara during the 1970s and became an archivist there in 1979. As an author, Niven contributed to two cookbooks for people with dental braces during the 1980s. Between the 1990s to 2010s, Niven wrote biographies about Sandburg, Edward Steichen and Thornton Wilder. She also co-wrote a 1993 memoir by James Earl Jones and her own memoir in 2004. Niven was given a North Carolina Award in 2004 and posthumously joined the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2018. Early life and education Niven's birth occurred at Waxhaw, North Carolina on April 11, 1939. Niven was interested in writing at the age of five. She also went to Charlotte, North Carolina with her parents for part of her childhood. Niven worked for multiple school publications while attending Greensboro College in the late 1950s. Niven had completed her studies at Greensboro and Wake Forest College before her 1963 marriage. Career Teaching and archiving After her marriage, Penelope McJunkin became an English teacher during the 1960s. She started her educational career at a Winston-Salem high school. By the late 1970s, McJunkin went to Maryland and worked for a Catholic school. From 1977 to 1978, she was at a Richmond, Indiana high school. During this time period, she started processing Carl Sandburg's written material that was at Connemara. While at Connemara, McJunkin became an archivist in 1979. Outside of Connemara, McJunkin went to Earlham College in 1978 to work on the Sandburg Collection Development Project as a director. Two years later, the Carl Sandburg Oral History Project was created by her. She worked on both projects during the 1980s with Earlham and the University of Illinois, Urbana. By 1994, Penelope Niven was an academic for St. Mary's College of Maryland and University of North Carolina at Asheville before she joined Greensboro College as an "assistant to the president and writer-in-residence". During 1997, Niven was working at Salem College as their writer-in-residence. Niven continued to hold her position with Salem throughout the 2000s. Writing and documentary By 1982, Penelope McJunkin had worked as a consultant for Carl Sandburg — Echoes and Silences. That year, the documentary appeared as an episode of American Playhouse. After Niven began to use dental braces, she and her husband co-wrote the 1984 book The I Hate To Chew Cookbook: A Gourmet Guide for Adults Who Wear Orthodontic Braces. She helped her daughter create the 1988 book Teen Cuisine: A Cookbook for Young People Who Wear Orthodontic Braces. In 1991, Niven released Carl Sandburg: A Biography. As a co-writer with James Earl Jones, they published the 1993 memoir titled James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences. In 1996, Niven's daughter created Velva Jean Learns to Drive. The short film was based on a short story by Niven that was not released. With Steichen: A Biography, her book about Edward Steichen was released the following year. She was a co-writer on the 2000 book Old Salem: The Official Guidebook. Her book with Jones had the epilogue changed in 2002 and was released as Voices and Silences. As a children's book author, Niven wrote Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet in 2003 while the pictures were provided by Marc Nadel. Her memoir, Swimming Lessons: Life Lessons from the Pool, from Diving In to Treading Water, was published the next year. For R. Philips Hayes, she edited his 2006 book titled How to Get Anyone to Do Anything. She continued her biographical career with a 2012 book on Thornton Wilder titled Thornton Wilder: A Life. Apart from writing, Niven was interviewed for The Day Carl Sandburg Died in 2011. The documentary appeared as an episode of American Masters the following year. Writing process and criticism Niven took 14 years to complete her Sandburg biography and conducted hundreds of interviews. Her book with Jones included journal entries and a timeline of his works while taking four years to complete. With Steichen, Niven was not allowed to include photographs owned by his widow Joanna Steichen. Reviewers from The Boston Globe and Winston-Salem Journal had different opinions on the length of Niven's book about Steichen. For Thornton Wilder, Niven used "thousands of pages of journals, letters and records". While reviewing Niven's biography on Wilder for The Boston Globe, Patti Hartigan believed that information about what people and places looked like were not included. Awards and honors In 1984, Niven received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies for her Sandburg work. During the 1990s, she was given fellowships for her books on Steichen and Wilder from the National Endowment for the Humanities. During this time period, she was a Yale University fellow in the mid 1990s. In 2004, Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet won the Children's and Young Adults' Book Award in the Intermediate Nonfiction category from the International Literacy Association. That year, Niven was given a North Carolina Award in the literature category. She joined the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame posthumously in 2018. From Greensboro, Niven received the Alumni Excellence Award during 1994. Salem College created the Penelope Niven Award for Creative Writing in 1998 while the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award was created by the Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2002. Personal life and death In 1987, Niven had a divorce. Her death occurred at Winston-Salem, North Carolina on August 28, 2014. References. Discover the Penelope Niven popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Penelope Niven books.
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Man In The Water
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The Stoic Mind
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Salvation
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The Cupcake Cottage
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Get Lucky
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Teach Me
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldAn Apple Books Classics edition. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s riveting classic. Manabouttown Jay Gatsby seems to have it all, including loads of...
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My Paper Heart
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Teased by Fire
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Dark Psychology and Manipulation
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Christmas in Sweetbriar Cove
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Peace on Earth
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The Seduction Series Boxset
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Always Yours
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Nothing to Hide
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Escape, A New Life
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The Target
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Eternal
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Alpha
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A Green Kind of Witch
Sierra CrossCinderella crossed with Mean Girls.   That's what Hazel's daily existence feels like. Born to a family of elegant yet shallow Beige Witches, seventeen y...
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Little Women
Louisa May AlcottAn Apple Books Classic edition. Meet the Marches! Louisa May Alcott’s classic introduces us to four unforgettable sisters: beautiful Meg, tomboyish Jo, delicate Beth, and Amy, the ...
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Once Upon A One-Night Stand
Zoey LockeAt first sight, there was electrifying chemistry.  So why not go for it? After all, Lynx Grove, the city's most eligible bachelor, wants to claim her, at least for th...
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Caught Up with the Captain
Kait NolanCan a retired naval commander and the love he left behind overcome a 34yearold secret to find their way to a second chance? Captain Mitchell Greyson is a man who believes in duty. ...
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Think and Grow Rich
Greg Habstritt & Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich is one of the most popular success book of alltime, having sold more than 60 million copies since it was first published more than 70...
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Dracula
Bram StokerAn Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vam...
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Rogue Alpha
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Death at Hazel House
Betty Rowlands‘Riveting, can't put it down! I love this story… a wonderfully twisted tale of a crime that has more twists than I thought possible... fantastic.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars ...
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenAn Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessio...
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Assisting the Bosshole
Kristin MacQueenNo hot water? Check Missed the train? Check Broke my heel? Check Dropped my coffee? Check My first day of my new job can’t possibly go worse, right? Wrong. When I meet Parker Scott...
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All Fired Up
Kathryn ShayCaptain Jarek Zenko, a war veteran and firefighter, meets Lacey Roth at a bar one night. They don’t share their real identities, even when they retreat to a hotel. When they meet t...
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Wuthering Heights
Emily BrontëAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heathcliff as the ultimate starcrossed lovers. But that...
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Good Guy
Kate MeaderHe's a Special Forces veteran making his pro hockey debut. She's a dogged sports reporter determined to get a scoop. She's also his best friend's widow . . . Fa...
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Just Me
Lexy TimmsWe all need somewhere where we feel safe… After leaving her abusive husband, Katherine Marshall is out on her own for the first time. She's hopped from city to city to avoid t...
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You Are Kind
Michael GordonA little kindness goes a long way. How can you help encourage your kids to be kind from a young age? Teach kindness to preschoolers Acts of kindness can be fun, easy, and make a ...
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The Three Little Pigs
Mark LeskyClassic fairy tales, legends and folk stories in short version without violence retold with lovely illustrations in simple language. Perfect for reading aloud to small chi...
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School of Potential
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Dream Psychology
Sigmund FreudAn Apple Books Classic edition. Written by the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s 1899 book is the definitive text on learning to interpret dreams. Freud’s groundbr...
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Whiskey Girl
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The Honeymoon Homicide
J. R. Mathis & Susan MathisEnjoy this SmallTown Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a smalltown parish who never expected this . . . When I came...
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Silver Santa
Lacey SilksTrapped together on Christmas, their unintended onenight stand becomes a lifechanging encounter amidst the snow. Laura Young's professional role as a security guard at the Sil...
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Enemies With Benefits
Roxie NoirI don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to...
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Saltwater Cove
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan DoyleAn Apple Books Classic You get not one, not two, but 25 gripping mysteries in Arthur Conan Doyle’s first of five collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Follow the brilliant ...
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Tempting the King
Jessa YorkAn escaped Mafia Queen, hiding from her past. A Mafia King who wants to claim her… Giselle They think I'm lostbut I know better. I can never be found. The path I've creat...
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Pretty Little Lies
Ivy ThornFour years ago, Nicolo Marchetti took my innocence. But he left me with something else Nicolo almost took everything from me. My virginity, my reputation, and very nearly my future...
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
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Becoming Lady Dalton
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His Girl Next Door
Khardine GrayFrom USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sizzling hot single dad romance you won't want to miss. No strings attached fun with the ubergorgeous single d...
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The Next Girl
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