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	Mary Doria Russell: Children of God
		In The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell chronicled Father Emilio Sandoz’s fall from grace on the planet Rakhat.
		Russell uses Supaari's adventures to paint a fuller picture of Rakhatian society than she had in The Sparrow.
		On the other hand, with the humans, Russell is able to get into intricate examinations of faith, loyalty, hope and other aspects of religion as her characters, both Jesuit and lay, wrestle with these topics.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/russell2.html (452 words)

	BookPage Interview February 2005: Mary Doria Russell
		In her new novel, A Thread of Grace, Russell turns her attention and her considerable talents from the future to the past to vividly dramatize the little-known story of how a wide network of Italian priests, nuns, villagers and farmers saved the lives of nearly 43,000 Jews in the final years of World War II.
		Russell's story begins on September 8, 1943, the day that Italy's surrender to the Allies unleashed a flood of Jewish refugees struggling over the Alps from France to safety in Italy.
		Russell presents a complex moral universe: her most appealing character, Renzo Leoni, a resourceful, funny, brave Italian Jew whose actions save the lives of many, is consumed by guilt over his participation in the Italian conquest of Ethiopia during which he became a decorated war hero.
	www.bookpage.com /0502bp/mary_doria_russell.html (997 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A THREAD OF GRACE by Mary Doria Russell
		Russell, who calls herself "a Jew by choice and an Italian by heritage" (she is a convert, though she doesn't give details), seems the ideal writer to bring this piece of history to life, and she does it beautifully in an absorbing, generously proportioned novel.
		Russell was originally a paleoanthropologist --- a scientist who studies human fossils --- and the training shows in her meticulous portrait of the region and its people.
		Russell does not preach or sentimentalize (which is easy to do in the face of the Italians' courage and self-sacrifice), and she doesn't glorify war; rather, she underscores its moral ambiguities.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0375501843.asp (913 words)

	epilog - Gespräch mit Mary Doria Russell
		Mary Doria Russell: Das ist eine gute Frage für die Diskussion heute Abend [in der es um Religion und Mythologie in der Science Fiction gehen sollte; Anm.
		Mary Doria Russell: Ich kann mir einmal in der Woche eine Putzfrau leisten.
		Mary Doria Russell: Sperling (The Sparrow • 1996) Kapitel 21 [Romanauszug]
	www.epilog.de /PersData/R/Russell_Mary_Doria/Texte/Interview_AC051.htm (1833 words)

	Review \| A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
		Russell presents the nuns and priests who often risked their own lives to save people with whom they shared little or nothing.
		The heroism of some of the characters is small and strong; whether it's a young soldier who falls for a Jewish girl who's fleeing with her father, or a priest who just does what he thinks is right for his neighbors, the story is compelling and believable.
		Russell even dares to try and explain evil to us, in the story of a German man who becomes a doctor for all the right reasons, but ends up using his knowledge for pure horror and who fights for understanding and even redemption.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/threadofgrace.html (776 words)

	Mary Doria Russell
		Mary Doria Russell was born near Chicago in 1950 to a Navy nurse and a Marine Corps drill sergeant and, as a consequence, had a remarkable if dismaying vocabulary prior to attending Sacred Heart Catholic Elementary School, where she learned discretion.
		Russell estimates that about 22 anthropologists, world-wide, read her academic publications and NOBODY ever reads computer manuals, so she figured that if even just her friends read her novel, she was way ahead in terms of readership because she has lots of friends.
		For helping to raise over $330,000 in grants and contributions to the school's building fund, Mary was paid $1.00 a year and all the Nescafe Instant Coffee she could drink, which isn't much because Nescafe is awful.
	literati.net /Russell (359 words)

	The Feminine Critique - Mary Doria Russell
		Mary Doria Russell was born in suburban Chicago in 1950.
		Russell taught human gross anatomy at Case Western Reserve University in the 1980s, but left Academe to write.
		The hero of Russell's acclaimed first novel The Sparrow (1996), Father Emilio Sandoz, eventually recovers enough from his mauling on the planet Rakhat to have both the Jesuit father general and the pope pressuring him to return.
	www.lewispublishing.com /auth21.htm (260 words)

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		Russell describes the book to be very rich anthropologically and comments that it has very developed, memorable characters-an aspect Russell tried to emulate in her novels.
		Russell is praised for her "witty and affecting characterizations, eloquent, sometimes sensuous prose, [and] a general humorous exuberance" (Gevers).
		Mary Doria Russell can be reached through e-mail at, as she "much prefers e-mail" to the telephone (Russell E-mail).
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/russell_mary_oh.htm (1524 words)

	Mary Doria Russell interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		Russell, who has an academic background in palaeoanthropology, has revived the anthropological SF that was so central to the genre in the 1970s.
		Russell's considerable literary gifts are richly displayed in The Sparrow: witty and affecting characterizations, eloquent, sometimes sensuous prose, a general humorous exuberance, these combine superbly with a sympathetic feminism and an acute understanding of the stark realities of colonialism and intercultural incomprehension to make this novel one of SF's most compelling stories of First Contact.
		MDR: I think science fiction is an important genre, and I am proud to have contributed a couple of novels to the field, but no, I don't identify with the genre as such.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intmdr.htm (5646 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| CHILDREN OF GOD by Mary Doria Russell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mary Doria Russell received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Illinois-Urbana, her M.A. in Social Anthropology from Northeastern University, and her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
		MDR: The Sparrow was about the role of religion in the lives of many people, from atheist to mystic, and about the role of religion in history, from the Age of Discovery to the Space Age.
		MDR: Well, Emilio articulates this at the end of The Sparrow and in the Prelude to this book: If he accepts that the spiritual beauty and the religious rapture he experienced were real and true, then all the rest of it--the violence, the deaths, the maiming, the assaults, the humiliations--all that was God's will, too.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/children_of_god-author.asp (2925 words)

	The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
		Mary Doria Russell's controversial and provocative first novel is a rarity - a science fiction tale that has received mainstream and critical acceptance.
		Russell (a Jewish convert who was raised Catholic) wrote The Sparrow ostensibly to address what she considered the unfair revisionism that was popular during the 500th anniversary commemoration of Columbus' discovery of America (and the ensuing 500 years of religious subjugation, slavery and genocide).
		Russell is a victim herself - of Catholic propaganda.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Apr04/sparrow.htm (802 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		A paleoanthropologist with specialties in bone biology and biomechanics, Mary Doria Russell did field work in Australia and Croatia and spent four years writing computer manuals before kicking off her writing career with her acclaimed debut novel, The Sparrow.
		In Russell's new novel, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father, along with thousands of Jewish refugees, scramble over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe.
		Russell told us that this chronicle by the famous "Lawrence of Arabia" "taught me that how you write is as important as what you have to tell about.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&vcqty=1&cid=1021920 (345 words)

	Mary Doria Russell
		Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation.
		In clean effortless prose, with captivating flashes of wit, Mary Doria Russell creates memorable characters who navigate the world of exciting ideas and disturbing moral issues without ever losing their humanity or humor.
		Mary Doria Russell's books are published in hardcover by Random House, and in trade paperback by
	users.adelphia.net /~druss44121 (109 words)

	Mary Doria Russell \| Cleveland Women\| The Sparrow
		Born just outside of Chicago in 1950 to a Navy nurse and a Marine Corps drill sergeant, Mary is most noted for being an award winning author, but she was (and is) a paleanthropolgist.
		Mary herself has also been honored with many awards and tributes not the least of which was being named by Northern Ohio Live magazine as a 2005 Award of Achievement Finalist and Crain's Cleveland Business named her a Woman of Influence in 2000.
		Mary may not want to be a role model, but it is almost inevitable that she is. She is a vibrant woman with a family that she loves spending time with.
	www.clevelandwomen.com /people/maryrussell.htm (1518 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Sparrow, The (Mary Doria Russell) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell writes the hoariest of science-fiction novels: Earth learns of the existence of an alien civilization, and a hardy band of explorers goes out to establish first contact.
		And Russell does an excellent job doling out the details of Rakhat piece by piece, so that we are as engaged in the process of discovery as the explorers featured in the novel.
		The problem with Russell's world-building is that, while the aliens are very alien in some ways, they're also disturbingly similar to humans in others.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/RussellMaryDoriaSparrowThe.shtml (400 words)

	Review of Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
		Instead, it is a flawed work which still manages to display Russell's strengths as a writer—namely characterization, world-building, and an eye for the damage that ethical, moral, and religious dilemmas can produce.
		was its people: Russell has a knack for illuminating the motivations and quirks of her characters, and while Sandoz was necessarily the best-drawn, the other characters were also lively and memorable.
		While Russell carefully avoids forcing one interpretation of the event itself onto the reader, I still had a difficult time accepting its impact on Emilio as realistic.
	www.steelypips.org /reviews/children.html (744 words)

	"The Sparrow" Author Mary Doria Russell to Present Convocation / News / Mount Union College - Mount Union ...
		Mary Doria Russell, author of "The Sparrow," and its sequel, "Children of God," will present a convocation on Thursday, September 11 at 10:30 a.m.
		Russell earned a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois-Urbana, a master's degree in social anthropology from Northwestern University and a doctoral degree in biological anthropology from the University of Michigan.
		Russell will also present a lecture at the Dewald Honors Dinner, to be held Wednesday, September 10.
	www.muc.edu /news/the_sparrow_author_mary_doria_russell_to_present_convocation (314 words)

	Whitworth Press Release - Mary Doria Russell Endowed Reader 2006
		Author Mary Doria Russell, who was described in a recent book review as an outstanding natural storyteller, is Whitworth's Endowed English Reader for 2006.
		Russell, whose aversion to "safe" art is evident throughout her work, has certainly taken the readers of her always-surprising novels beyond the comfortable worlds they inhabit.
		Russell holds a doctorate in biological anthropology and taught human gross anatomy at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in the 1980s.
	www.whitworth.edu /News/2006_2007/Fall/RussellEndowedReader.htm (575 words)

	The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
		Russell explores the lives of a handful of characters -- their loves, their suffering, and their attemps to come to grip with the nature of the universe and of God.
		They aren't just window dressing: the issues Russell explores involving the nature of God and the universe are an integral part of the novel.
		Mary Doria Russell, if she decides to write more, should join the ranks of Ursula Le Guin, Michael Bishop, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Gene Wolfe as a write who manages to bridge this difficult gap.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Mann/sparrow.html (713 words)

	Books by Mary Doria Russell
		Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters.
		Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul.
		Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell's special literary magic.
	literati.net /Russell/RussellBooks.htm (628 words)

	Literaturschock: Interview mit Mary Doria Russell
		Mary Doria Russell: I'm an aging leftist, so I think society benefits when taxes are spent to make education freely available and without direct cost to the student.
		Mary Doria Russell: For many people, faith is the blind acceptance of some belief.
		Mary Doria Russell: I have two hoops that a novel has to jump through, just to get me past the first few pages.
	www.literaturschock.de /autorengefluester/000069 (2571 words)

	Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
		Mary Doria Russel's novel The Sparrow explores the nature of religious faith, how some people have a need for a deity in their lives, and how for some people this need can be very great indeed.
		In this, her first novel, Mary Doria Russell uses the character of Father Sandoz as a lens with which to examine some of the dark, often dead-end, alleys that can await those who insist on a purely religious interpretation both of their lives and of this universe.
		Combustible certainly, but Russell keeps a lid on it all throughout, so that the novel could be said to glow with a rich incandescence.
	www.rambles.net /russell_sparrow.html (643 words)

	epilog Person - Mary Doria Russell (1950-) Amerikanische Schriftstellerin
		Mary und ihr jüngerer Bruder entwickelten bereits in frühem Alter ein bestürzend großes Vokabular.
		Mary und Don Russell sind seit 1970 verheiratet und wohnen in Cleveland, Ohio, zusammen mit ihrem Sohn Daniel, der 1986 geboren wurde.
		Mary Doria Russell erhielt den Kurd Laßwitz Preis für:
	www.epilog.de /Person/R/Rus_Ruz/Russell_Mary_Doria_1950.htm (257 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sparrow: Books: Mary Doria Russell
		Russell brings her training as a paleoanthropologist to bear on descriptions of the Runa and Jana'ata, the two races on Rakhat whose differences are misunderstood by the Earthlings, but the aliens never come across as more than variations of primitive earthly cultures.
		Russell has crafted a fine work of character, of people both exceptional and very real, in this tale of first contact between a Jesuit sponsored mission and the denizens of the planet Rakhat.
		Russell does not provide answers, but her characters each have their own way of dealing with these questions, methods both practical and, for some, esoteric.
	www.amazon.com /Sparrow-Mary-Doria-Russell/dp/0449912558 (2018 words)

	Moving Into Films: Mary Doria Russell
		She was this upbeat and cheerful person who regaled us with stories of her son Danny, her wonderful husband Don, and her dog (whose name I can't recalled because it is not a 'dog' name).
		But there she was, a disillusioned college professor who had given up teaching for semi-retirement --and a hobby of maybe writing a short story, now the hottest new author around with a bunch of international awards pined on her chest (enter "Mary Doria Russell" in your search engine and read all about it).
		And, in many ways, Mary was, and continues to be, an artistic influence at this stage of my life in the same manner that professor Thomson's letter was a turning point in my destiny.
	www.muralmaster.org /writings/MovingFilms/russell.html (1077 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Arts and Entertainment: Doria Russell's novel shares real-life tales of humanity
		An Italian-American by birth and a Jew by choice, Doria Russell embarked on seven years of research and of writing "A Thread of Grace" after reading Alexander Stille's excellent non-fiction book about Jews in Italy called, "Benevolence and Betrayal." For her, the story of ordinary Italians' treatment of the Jews struck a deep chord.
		We talked to Mary Doria Russell about the book and about what she learned on her journey to write it.
		MDR: Well, there are hundreds of memoirs and histories and biographies, but none of those books seemed to put the story of the Italian response to the Holocaust together in a way that made an emotional impact.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /ent/articles/doriarussell.html (723 words)

	Des Moines Public Library
		Russell was first contacted and told that she would be the first science fiction writer ever featured in the AViD Author Series, she quickly replied that she does not consider herself a science fiction writer and referred to her third novel as proof.
		Russell's work has been recognized with nine national and international literary awards and she was a finalist for a number of others.
		Russell estimates that about twenty-two anthropologists, worldwide, read her academic publications and NOBODY ever reads computer manuals, so she figured that if even just her friends read her novel, she was way ahead in terms of readership because she has lots of friends.
	www.pldminfo.org /News/avid.htm (1715 words)

	2006 One book One Erie - Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dr. Russell taught human gross anatomy at Case Western Reserve University in the 1980s, but left Academe to write, which turned out to be a good career move.
		Russell's work has been recognized with nine national and international literary awards and she was a finalist for a number of others.
		Mary and Don Russell have been happily married for an unusually high percentage of the years since 1970.
	www.onebookerie.org /author.html (269 words)

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