Greek Authors

CrimsonTide4 · #1 05-19-2002, 01:16 PM

Does your fraternity or sorority have any authors?
Share them here.

Lisa Fishman · #2 05-19-2002, 01:39 PM

Here are Alpha Gamma Delta authors:

Authors Kay Studebaker Allenbaugh
Phi
Best-selling author of Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul and six other Chocolate series inspirational books for women

Judith Hartley Carter
Gamma Delta
Former Editor of McCall’s needlework magazine

Elizabeth Corbett*
Beta
Author of over 50 novels

Lorraine Jensen Davis
Epsilon Gamma
Former Editor of Vogue magazine

Mignon Good Eberhardt*
Beta Alpha
Author of over 50 mysteries, proclaimed as “America’s Agatha Christie”

Donna Lewis Friess
Delta Alpha
Author and advocate against child molestation

Sharon Hartin Iorio
Upsilon
Author of Faith’s Harvest: Mennonite Identity in Northwest Oklahoma

Shannon L. Kehoe
(and Donald J. Lloyd)
Gamma Alpha
Smile and Jump High!…the true story of overcoming a traumatic brain injury

Agnes Newton Keith*
Omicron
Author of Book-of-the-Month Three Came Home, 1947 – True story of Keith and her family’s four years as prisoners of the Japanese in Borneo prison camps during WWII; Author of five other books, Alpha Gamma Delta Distinguished Citizen, 1995

Heather Wilkes MacAllister
Epsilon Eta
Novelist (a.k.a. “Heather Allison”)

Mary Ruth Parsons Myers
Epsilon Alpha
Author of 10 novels, short novel appeared in Good Housekeeping

Carol Morse Perkins
Delta
Author and lecturer with late husband Marlin Perkins

Alyse Stanko Pleiter
Lambda
Author of The Impossible Texan; a.k.a. “Allie Shaw”

Lucille Rieley Rights
Gamma Epsilon
Author of A Portrait of St. Lucie County, Florida

Jeanne Swanner Robertson
Gamma Delta
Miss North Carolina, 1964; Miss Congeniality of Miss America Pageant, 1964; author, humorist and public speaker

Eve Kimbrell Sandstrom
Upsilon
Author of six mystery novels and short story published in a mystery anthology; a.k.a. “Eve K. Sandstrom”

Edna Cress Staebler
Tau
Member of the Order of Canada (1996), journalist and author. WLU’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction ($3,000) is the only such award in Canada

Lois Kroeber Wille
Lambda
Author and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism

Jenna Winterberg
Epsilon Mu
Author/editor of more than six books targeted to teens and women

* Denotes Chapter Grand

Betarulz! · #3 05-19-2002, 03:00 PM

The only Beta that I think most people have heard of is Ken E. Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest

I do know that there are others because in "The Beta Theta Pi" our quarterly magazine they have a section about new books out by Betas.

MoonStar17 · #4 05-19-2002, 04:43 PM

Here is the only Phi Mu author that I know of

Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde: A Novel, We Were the Mulvaneys, and many other renowned novels

AngelPhiSig · #5 05-19-2002, 05:19 PM

Heres one that my sisters are sick of me talking about:

(shes a kind-of author)

Irna Phillips founder of the Theta Chaper at U. of Illinois
Creator of "Guding Light" (the soap) which is the longest running program in history (making the radio to TV transition!)

Jane Brody - Beta Xi - NYTimes editor, author of books on nutrition and fitness

Flora Atkin - Kappa - Playright and autor of Childrens plays

Lillian Doris Mosesco - Gamma - Author of business and financial texts

Lillian S. Freehof - Phi - Author of childrens books

DeltAlum · #6 05-19-2002, 09:23 PM

The author of "Forest Gump" is a Delt. I can't remember his name.

CrimsonTide4 · #7 05-19-2002, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DeltAlum
The author of "Forest Gump" is a Delt. I can't remember his name.

Winston Groom.

I read the book B4 I saw the movie.

queequek · #8 05-19-2002, 10:33 PM

Our most famous author is Robert Frost (well, not exactly an author, but poet is close enough, I guess).
Robert Frost was a Theta Delt from Dartmouth College (Omicron Deuteron Charge).

LeslieAGD · #9 05-20-2002, 07:54 AM

The lady that wrote "Where The Heart Is" is a Sigma...I think her name is Billy Letts...?

CrimsonTide4 · #10 05-20-2002, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LeslieAGD
The lady that wrote "Where The Heart Is" is a Sigma...I think her name is Billy Letts...?

I am not up on NPC nicknames. There are too many of you all. If you were on Witt's campus then I know.

I read Where the Heart Is -- tearjerker.

LeslieAGD · #11 05-20-2002, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
I am not up on NPC nicknames. There are too many of you all.

I meant Sigma Sigma Sigma.

AOIIBrandi · #12 05-20-2002, 08:57 AM

Nichelle D. Tramble (Lambda Beta - Long Beach St.) wrote "The Dying Ground"

Stella George Stern Perry (One of our founders) wrote children's books as well as our ritual

sailboatgirl · #13 05-20-2002, 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LeslieAGD
The lady that wrote "Where The Heart Is" is a Sigma...I think her name is Billy Letts...?

Billie Letts is indeed a Tri Sigma...from my chapter!

#14 05-20-2002, 10:53 AM

Here is the link to the DZ author's Page.

http://www.fjordsusa.com/dzauthors.html

ZZ-kai- · #15 05-20-2002, 04:29 PM

You can find the list of Beta Authors, as well as other prominent Betas, at this link:

http://www.betathetapi.org/about/beta1st.pdf

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Quote:

Originally posted by Betarulz!
The only Beta that I think most people have heard of is Ken E. Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest

I do know that there are others because in "The Beta Theta Pi" our quarterly magazine they have a section about new books out by Betas.