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Shirley Streshinsky

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Shirley Streshinsky is a novelist, biographer,and journalist who has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad.

Her non-fiction books include the biography AUDUBON, LIFE AND ART IN THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS. Her first book was AND I ALONE SURVIVED, based on the experience of the sole survivor of a small plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains, (with Lauren Elder), Literary Guild selection, Reader's Digest condensation, 18 foreign editions, and NBC movie for television; and OATS! A BOOK OF WHIMSY (with Maria Streshinsky).

Her historical novels include: THE SHORES OF PARADISE, GIFT OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN, A TIME BETWEEN, and HERS THE KINGDOM. All were published originally in hardback by Putnam and paperback by Berkley, there were several ed
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San Francisco and the Bay Area

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An Atomic Love Story: The E...

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Hers the Kingdom

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Audubon: Life and Art in th...

3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions
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A Time Between

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Gift of the Golden Mountain

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The Shores of Paradise

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Oats!: A Book of Whimsy

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“I can easily imagine becoming drunk over his body and more over his delight in mine. He could have all that and whatever of the rest of me he could find.”
Shirley Streshinsky, An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer's Life

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