Student Workbook for Kessler/McDonald's When Words Collide, 8th
Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including most recently, My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thickets of Adolescence. She is also the author of Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's), Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club - which David Letterman, in fierce competition with Oprah, chose as the first (and only) book for the Dave Letterman Book Club. Kessler appeared twice on his late-night show. She is also the author of Oregon Book Award winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the state's 2009 sesquicentennial.  Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, newsweek.com and salon.com, and she blogs at www.myteenagewerewolf.com. She is a national speaker and workshop leader. The founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. Find out more at www.laurenkessler.com.Duncan McDonald is professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, where he also served as Dean of the School of Journalism and Communications as well as Vice President of Public Affairs and Development. He is a former Deputy Director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. A former newspaper reporter, editor and publisher, he has co-authored texts in grammar, media writing, information gathering and graphics.