Glass Salamander
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"Ann Downer, writer"
Female
48 years old
SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts
United States
Last Login: 7/13/2008
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Glass Salamander's Interests
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| General | Books, books, books. Book truffling in used book stores. Collage, assemblage (Joseph Cornell), photography. Films and animation. Graphic novels. Cooking and writing about cooking (MKF Fisher, John Thorne), slow food, Scotland, life sciences, history of science, natural history, zoos, museums, antiquing (esp. Victorian jewelry), gravestone rubbing,
Invented instruments, kinetic sculpture. In college, long, long ago, worked in the rare book room and at a local letterpress. | | Music | World (Spanish, Celtic, Hindi), newgrass, dub reggae, grounation, salsa, tango, oud, tropicalismo, Americana, Alison Kraus, Sam Phillips, Rufus Wainwright, Van Morrison, Stax, Elvis Costello, Dutch free jazz, Tom Herrell, Fred Hersch, bebop. | | Movies | Harryhausen, Miyazaki, anything with Joel McRae or Barbara Stanwyck, Hope Davis, Emma Thompson, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffmann. | | Television | Numb3rs, Avatar the Last Airbender, The Daily Show, MythBusters, but mostly movies on Netflix these days. | | Books | In stacks two feet deep all over the house. Nowadays, love some Australian authors: Peter Carey, Randolph Stow. And Canadians: Robertson Davies, Marian Engel. Collect the work of Sylvia Townsend Warner and MFK Fisher. | | Heroes | Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, Sylvia Earle, the unsung people who do the thankless work for the powerless all around the world. Here's to the teachers, the pediatricians. And the Vintage Eggs (you know who you are!). |
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Glass Salamander's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Falls Church, VA | | Body type: | 5' 5" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | writer and editor |
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Glass Salamander's Schools
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Smith College
Northampton, MA
Graduated: 1982
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
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1978 to 1982 |
George Mason High
Falls Church, VA
Graduated: 1978
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1974 to 1978 |
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About me:
Author of fantasy books* for ages eight to infinity. Born in Virginia, grew up in Southeast Asia, back to NoVa for high school, college in Western Mass. Have lived outside Boston since 1987.
*The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers, Hatching Magic, The Dragon of Never-Was (see my pics for copies of the jackets, and go to anndowner.com for more than you want to know about my writing)
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Who I'd like to meet:
Other writers balancing day jobs, writing, and kids.
Film nuts.
Animators (esp in Flash).
Comic authors.
Collage artists.
Other parents of Lego-crazy kids.
People interested in science literacy.
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