Peace Corps Writers

In 1975, when noted conservationist Dr. Richard W. Carroll made his thru-hike of the two-thousand-mile-long Appalachian Trail, he had a bachelor's degree in biology, but his real education about...

A superb collection of stories and anecdotes by Peace Corps Volunteers in Gabon, Africa.Author: Darcy Munson MeijerPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: Sep 14, 2011Number of Pages: 234...

After two years as an early Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Liberia, one woman's five decade effort to learn about and to educate Americans about African peoples and countries.Author: Angene...

Africa's Embrace is author Mark Wentling's fictional account about the adventures of a young man from Kansas who travels to Africa and becomes caught up in a mystical larger-than-life adventure. This...

Fascinated by a mysterious novella, aspiring journalist Robin Fletcher is determined to find out more about the book's main character, a man known only as J.B. His quest leads him from the wheat...

JB's elderly brother and sister were recluses and never spoke to anyone... They were the only ones who could possibly know what had happened to JB, but they did not talk to anyone. They seemed intent...

Fifty years after President Kennedy signed the 1961 Executive Order creating the Peace Corps, nearly 100 former volunteers who joined the new organization in the first year for service in the...

Ann Hales, Ph.D. is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, who has worked for almost fifty years providing mental health services to her community --- whether it be Tennessee, Colorado, Idaho, Liberia,...

How did I wind up in a Kentucky jail cell? I can't put all the blame on Angela Van Landingham. She had her own brand of wickedness-I'm not talking here about her frilly pink handcuffs and tantric...

Set in December 1776 and the fateful year of 1777, seventeen year old Will Stoner, a Private in the Massachusetts Artillery, endures incredible hardships, finds his courage on the battlefields, and...

When Catherine arrived in Nigeria as an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer, she had no idea of the wealth of customs and traditions she would come to love. With her marriage to a Nigerian electrical...

Brooklyn, NY to Bocaiuva, Brazil: A Peace Corps Love Story tells the story of the unlikely chain of circumstances, in the United States and Brazil, which lead Frank and Lena to meet and fall in love...

Technology first rocked our world when a lightning bolt zapped a bush at the entrance to a cave, and First Man crawled out and stuck his hand into the mystical blaze. Centuries later, we still find...

Sixteen year old Willem Stoner and his father, together with other New York teamsters, are hired by Colonel Henry Knox to haul almost sixty cannons, some weighing more than a ton, on wagons and sleds...

He approached me with some trepidation but also with a sense of urgency in his voice. He asked to close the door of my mud-brick house so that he could speak to me in private and was clearly nervous...

Dancing with Gogos is the story of one man's effort to make a difference in a collection of Zulu villages in rural South Africa, while fulfilling a life-long dream of serving in the United States...

Having had the chance to reflect on my own Peace Corps experiences, and knowing how fickle memory can be, I felt the necessity to write them down. What became of this project was a meandering...

For over a year the town of Twisting Creek, Kentucky has been obsessed with the enigmatic African immigrant accused of the brutal strangulation of a popular young Sunday School teacher. A...

Dodging Machetes: How I Survived Forbidden Love, Bad Behavior, And The Peace Corps In FijiAuthor: Will LutwickPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: May 21, 2012Number of Pages: 266...

IT WAS WITH GREAT RELIEF that John Ashford realized he was going to do something new in his life. In his mid-fifties and happily married to his second wife, Gen, John wanted to feel as passionate...

Eighteen Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Eritrea share their fond experiences in this Horn of Africa country. Edited by Marian Haley Beil Contributing authors: Marianne Arieux, Mike Bannister,...

Frontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joseph Goss digs into the origins of his ancient home to...

Situated in Central Africa, the nation of Gabon is a vibrant and mysterious place full of rich history, diverse culture, and stunning biodiversity. In the midst of the African rainforest, a Peace...

How to Cook a Crocodile: A Memoir with RecipesAuthor: Bonnie Lee BlackPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: October 06, 2010Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

For anyone who has a story that needs to be told ... or who dreams of writing and publishing a novel ... or who has ever thought, "I could have written that book!" now there is a practical,...

Early 1990 Susan is a guileless young graduate out to save the world. Except, that doesn't work out as planned. Nor can she hold her liquor, but not for lack of trying. In a land of five-foot-tall...

Harriet Denison joined the Peace Corps in 1966 and spent two years in Tanzania teaching at Bwiru Girls' Secondary School. At the time, Tanzania was a new nation full of optimism and challenges, much...

Letters From A Wondrous Empire: An Epistolary MemoirAuthor: Cynthia Nelson MoscaPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: July 14, 2021Number of Pages: 186 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Several years back, author/editor Jon Thiem mentioned to a young woman (with a Ph.D.) that in the late 1960s he had served with the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa. She thought he was referring to...

I've left him. It's over. If you still want what we've been talking about, I'm ready. When university professor Markus Thorsen reads these words from the love of his life, Marisa, he abandons his...