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Fink, Deborah Fink, Deborah

Story County

Comments from the author about writing

Having grown up in rural Nebraska, I am fascinated with the promise and contradictions of rural life. In my books I have explored questions of rural women, family, labor, class, race and politics. Currently I am writing a memoir about living in a rural community and going to school in the 1950s. I write to gain insight into American life and to communicate my insights to others.

Literary awards received and date received.

Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award for most significant book in Iowa History in 1998
Choice Academic Book Award, 1998
Theodore Saloutos Award for best agricultural history book of 1998

Book Types:
Nonfiction
Audience Types:
Adult
Genres (Optional):
History
Are you willing to do programs for schools, libraries, or other groups? Yes
If you are willing to do programs, will you charge a fee? No
E-mail Address:
afink@iastate.edu
Phone Number:
515-232-2763


Books By This Author

Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1998
Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1992
Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition and Change Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition and Change, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1986