Don't forget the Chattanooga Writers Guild monthly meeting May 11th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Chattanooga Theatre Center. 

EMILY YELLIN, award winning journalist and author of Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and At the Front During World War II, will be the featured speaker.  Wild Hare Books--an independent bookstore from Signal Mountain--will be selling books at the meeting.  

Please come out to hear Emily's talk--she is traveling from Memphis to make her first out-of-town stop on her national book tour.  The CBS Morning Show is planning a feature on her and her mother, who served in the Red Cross in the Pacific during WWII, on the anniversary of D-Day (June 6). And, she'll be speaking at the Smithsonian in DC in May.

WHAT:     CHATTANOOGA WRITERS GUILD MONTHLY MEETING— featuring award winning journalist and author Emily Yellin. Event is FREE to the public.

DATE:     TUESDAY, MAY 11TH 

TIME:     6:30 TO 7:00 P.M.—BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR SALE FROM WILD HARE BOOKS; 7:00 TO 8:00—TALK; 8:00 TO 9:00—BOOK SIGNING

LOCATION: CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTER, CIRCLE THEATER
400 RIVER STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE 37405

SPONSORS: CHATTANOOGA WRITERS GUILD, CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTER, AND WILD HARE BOOKS.  

BOOK WEBSITE:    www.ourmotherswar.com

FOR MORE INFO:  CONTACT JENNIFER HOFF AT [log in to unmask] OR (423) 413-2058  WWW.CHATTANOOGAWRITERSGUILD.ORG
            
SIGNED BOOKS:     WILD HARE BOOKS WILL HAVE SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN THE STORE, AFTER THE EVENT IS HELD, OR SIGNED COPIES CAN BE ORDERED FROM WILD HARE BOOKS BY CALLING (423) 886-1360

ABOUT OUR MOTHERS’ WAR:

Yellin’s curiosity about how women lived during World War II began with her own mother. In 1999, after her mother died, Yellin found a diary, photos, and hundreds of letters her mother wrote while she was a Red Cross worker in the Pacific during World War II. Excerpts from her mother’s letters and diaries are sprinkled throughout OUR MOTHERS’ WAR, framing the larger investigation into women’s lives beyond the common stereotypes.


BOOK REVIEWS:    

* “In this lively, smart, sometimes contrarian work of social history, Yellin explores the manifold roles of women in WWII: nurses, musicians, athletes, pilots, homemakers, factory workers, political activists, even prostitutes. In doing so, she turns up intriguing observations about a society turned on its head by the all-encompassing conflict…. A superb contribution to the literature of World War II.”
----Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
    
“When I found papers in my father’s closet after his death, I wrote about how he and his buddies fought the battle of Iwo Jima. When Emily Yellin found papers after her mother’s death, she wrote a book that demonstrates that not all the heroes of World War II faced the bullets. From pin-ups to pilots to politicians, Yellin has provided a thorough and enjoyable account of our mothers’ war.”

---James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys

ABOUT EMILY YELLIN:

Award-winning journalist Emily Yellin has been a longtime contributor to The New York Times. Her work has also appeared in Newsweek and other publications, and she contributed the chapter about women to the commemorative book for the opening of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 2004. She received an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1989, and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1983. She taught non-fiction writing at The University of Memphis in the 1990s. She currently lives in Memphis, Tennessee.