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Earl B. Russell

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Born

in Palmyra, Tennessee, The United States

April 01

Website

https://earlbrussell.wordpress.com/

Twitter

@EarlBRussell

Genre

Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction

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Early farm life, colorful family, humor, multiple tragedies, education ...more

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May 2013

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Earl B. Russell is author Meanderings and Mullings (2017) and the tragicomic Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child (2013). He is a writer, blogger, and retired professor whose writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Arizona Republic, and the Austin American-Statesman.

He spent much of his career writing for dozens of academic publications, including journal articles and research reports. He held academic positions at the University of Georgia, Ohio State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He retired as professor emeritus after finishing his academic career as a department head at Nebraska.

He has two adult children, Joy and Robert. He is married to Ellen ...more

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Average rating: 4.78 · 18 ratings · 8 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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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Book 2, Meanderings and Mullings, Is Out!

This post may go down as the weirdest author announcement of a new book ever! And why, you may ask, am I posting this announcement on Black Friday?

What is not so weird is that my new book, Meanderings and Mullings, is made up almost entirely of previous blog posts that have appeared on this blog. They come now with a humongous number of updates and tweaks to finer details—plus a complete reorganiz

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“I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the door I could barely see the light between them.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

tags: cats, childhood-memories, farm-life, humor, pets, stories-life

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“When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

tags: childhood-memories, family-relationships, growing-up, humorous, pranks

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“I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

tags: crime, family-saga, humor, lifespan, mental-illness, stories-life

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“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

tags: freedom

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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tags: crime, family-saga, humor, lifespan, mental-illness, stories-life

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“When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

tags: childhood-memories, family-relationships, growing-up, humorous, pranks

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