Rick Kogan interviews FSC and designer Tom Greensfelder on “After Hours” WGN- Radio 720
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
After Hours with Rick Kogan: Musicians and more from the new Allstate Skyline Studios
Interview for All-School Reads Program at Norton Middle School, Norton, MA
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
What is it like knowing what your mother went through? My mother suffered terribly as a child. Before they were killed by the Nazis, my grandparents made the most painful choice any parent could face. They decided to send my mother, who was only 12 years old, to live with relatives in America. She came …
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Interview with Barbara Bietz
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
From Barbara Bietz’s Blog: Please welcome author Fern Schumer Chapman. Junior Library Guild has selected her new book, Is It Night or Day? (March 2010), as a spring title. In a starred review, Booklist called the work ”powerful and eloquent,” adding, ”as with the best writing, the specifics about life as a young immigrant are universal.” …
Interview with Fern Schumer Chapman
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
When did you realize you wanted to be a writer? I had a difficult childhood, but writing saved me. I discovered that capturing my emotional life on the page could be therapeutic. As Anne Frank wrote in her diary in April 1944, “I can shake off everything if I write. My sorrows disappear, my courage …