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Theasa Tuohy

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Theasa Tuohy is a long-time journalist who has happily turned her life experiences and reporting skills to fiction featuring female reporters. Theasa worked for five daily newspapers and the Associated Press. Her "first woman" stints included assistant city editor at The Detroit News and the copy desk at The (Newark) Star-Ledger.

During her lengthy career as a journalist, Theasa worked for five daily newspapers and for The Associated Press. She was the first female assistant city editor at The Detroit News, one of the country’s largest afternoon dailies at the time.

As a playwright, Theasa co-authored the book, or libretto, of Scandalous: The Musical, an award-winning show about the life of D. H. Lawrence, author of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover, ...more

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Theasa Tuohy Sit down and write. Hit one key and then the other. You've got a delete button, don't be scared. Just do it!…moreSit down and write. Hit one key and then the other. You've got a delete button, don't be scared. Just do it!(less)

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Theasa Tuohy The Woman at la Gare de l'Est was written to solve a mystery in my own life!
Why I wrote my new book.
True story! Just as the main character, Sarah, I t…moreThe Woman at la Gare de l'Est was written to solve a mystery in my own life!
Why I wrote my new book.
True story! Just as the main character, Sarah, I too was actually in a speeding taxi when I saw the woman, then spotted “The Woman at la Gare de l’Est” again a few minutes later. My question then, and still is, how did she get from standing on a Paris curb in front of the Sarah Bernhardt Bistro to the East Train Station faster than I did – me in a cab, her afoot?
I wrote the book, trying to figure that out. I still am mystified by the sighting. And no, it’s not true that you have to know the ending to a mystery before you begin to write. The how she did it is total fiction. The beginning is all true. The setting is true, several of the characters are real, friends of mine. One of whom still lives in Paris, some have moved back home to the states. They’ve all been eager to find out what kind of difficult and scary experiences I got their fictional selves into. That boiler-plate stuff about no resemblance to persons living or dead is not quite true in The Woman at la Gare, enough that they are recognizable, but nothing slanderous or libelous = just fun! The one character who is pure fiction is the one who saw the loitering woman. I saw her, but the zany character who spotted her is definitely not me. She’s an actress, I’m not. She’s never serious, I almost always am. But I certainly had a lot of fun sketching her!
The characters in my latest novel are based on real friends, even used their real names. A journalist for many years, I’ve happily turned to fiction. This is my third novel, but it’s got a special twist. Most of the main characters are based on friends of mine and I’ve kept their real names. Kind of a high-wire act. — with Theasa Tuohy.(less)

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	Flying Jenny 3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Five O'Clock Follies: What's a Woman Doing Here, Anyway? 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Of all the books I read, which were many, researching the Vietnam War for "The Five O'Clock Follies," this was my favorite: "Once Upon a Distant War."
William Prochnau, who died last month, was the ultimate reporter's reporter.

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“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
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“The film image of a dead child dressed in blood-red floating, Ophelia-like, in "Don’t Look Now" swam before her eyes. It must be some kind of diabolical threat!”
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“Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
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