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Amy Hill Hearth (pronounced "Harth", born 1958) is an American journalist and author who specializes in stories about women. She is the author or co-author of seven nonfiction books〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=American Society of Journalists and Authors )〕 including the oral history ''Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years'', a ''New York Times'' bestseller for 113 weeks according to its archives. Departing from her non-fiction work, Hearth wrote her first novel, ''Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society'', in 2011. It was published on October 2, 2012.〔 〕 ==Life and career== Amy Hearth spent her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina and her young adult years in Florida.〔 She is a thirteenth-generation American whose ancestors fought for independence in the Revolutionary War. She has some Native American (Lenni-Lenape) ancestry as well, and was given the Native name "Smiling Songbird Woman" by the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians in a tribal ceremony in 2010 in honor of her oral history about their tribal matriarch, ''Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say''.〔 She attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, majoring in Sociology, then transferred to the University of Tampa, Florida editing the college newspaper and earning a B.A. in Writing. Her first newspaper job was assistant arts and entertainment editor at ''The Berkshire Eagle'' in Pittsfield, Massachusettes and her first full time reporting job was at the ''Daytona Beach News-Journal'' in Florida. She met her future husband, a native of Naples, Florida, when she interviewed him for a story. Hearth relocated to the New York area, and subsequently wrote eighty-eight bylined news and feature stories for ''The New York Times''. This included her article on the Delany Sisters, "Two Maiden Ladies with Stories to Tell".〔 Hearth is a college lecturer. In January 2012, for example, she was a visiting author at the University of Tampa, her alma mater. She and author Michael Connelly appeared together at what was billed by the university as its "Official Opening Reading" of the university's newly launched Master of Fine Art's in Creative Writing program.〔 She and her husband live in the greater New York area.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amy Hill Hearth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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