Tag: History

• The Boundaries of Creative Non-Fiction

  When I first started writing my biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker minister Murray Shipley, I wanted to review some of the historical biographies and non-fiction that we have on our bookshelves, specifically from a craft perspective. When writing about past events, how much can an author dramatize without straying too far afield? The answer to…

  sdarnowsky

  October 16, 2024

  Writing and Editing

  Creative Non-Fiction, Historical Events, History, Writing

• 3, 2, 1 . . . Book Launch!

  During a turbulent period in their history, nineteenth-century members of the Religious Society of Friends were struggling with a challenging question: what exactly do Quakers believe? My recently published work, Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873-1876), provides an almost unique glimpse into the preaching of Gurneyite Friends, who made…

  sdarnowsky

  July 3, 2024

  Events, News and Announcements

  Author Event, Book Launch, Friends United Press, History, News, Preaching, Quaker, Quaker History, Quakerism, Quakers, Sermons

• What Makes the Cut?

  One of the reasons that I decided to write a biography of Murray Shipley was because of the breadth of his life experiences. When you think about Levi Coffin, you associate him primarily with abolition—his work in the Underground Railroad and Western Freedmen’s Aid Society. Murray, on the other hand, took part in almost every…

  sdarnowsky

  March 28, 2024

  Quaker History, Research, Writing and Editing

  Earlham, History, Quaker, Research, Writing