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| Biography Fred Hunter has written for many mediums. His plays include The Hemingway Play, Disposable Woman, and Subway. His adaptation for PBS of his own Hemingway Play won a Writers Guild Award nomination. Also for PBS he adapted Ring Lardner’s "The Golden Honeymoon" and wrote Lincoln and the War Within under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other television projects include The Beate Klarsfeld Story for ABC, A Nightmare in the Daylight for CBS, and The Devil in Vienna for the Disney Channel. His essay, Fathers and Sons, is featured in Cune's anthology An Ear to the Ground. Hunter served as a US Information Service officer in the Congo, and after his time there he developed a fascination with the African continent and its people, and he jumped at the chance to return as a journalist working for The Christian Science Monitor. "When I served as The Monitor’s Africa man, I wanted to show Africa as more than exotic and savage and dysfunctional, which was the impression most reportage offered. I found Africa beautiful." At present, Hunter works as a screenwriter and lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Donanne. He can be reached at Murugi@aol.com. |
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| Africa, Africa! Fifteen Stories by Frederic Hunter An African king, a girl who disappears in the Congo jungle, a Belgian planter escaping from his past, a journalist starting a family in Nairobi: meet them in Africa, Africa!, a collection of stories about the expatriates who encounter Africa, its peoples, and its mysteries. Longtime screenwriter Frederic Hunter revisits a place he has pondered for three decades. His fiction illuminates a dilemma of our times: how Americans connect with the world beyond their shores.Hunter first went to Africa at a pivotal time—1963—and witnessed the Belgian Congo’s collapse into chaos. He returned in the early seventies as a journalist and roamed the continent, developing the insights he now presents in Africa, Africa! |
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| Praise from early readers "This is a sparkling cluster of often poignant tales, told with insight and compassion. They paint an exuberant palette of Africa and its people, overflowing with grace, color and vitality, yet caught in a struggle for dignity and identity in an age that destroys stabilizing traditions. Hunter treads gently but surely between dream and reality. A highly readable, entertaining book." —David Anable, President, International Center for Journalists "Fred Hunter is an old-fashioned writer in the best sense of that term: the tales brim with surprise, insight and exotic romance. No one knows Africa - and the troubled relationship between its whites and blacks - better than Hunter, and he details the mysteries of that wonder-filled continent with a cold eye and warm heart." —Stanley Meisler, former foreign correspondent, Los Angeles Times "Africa, Africa! is a finely honed collection of stories that evoke the magic of a mysterious and beautiful continent. Fred Hunter introduces us to people and places that are enchanting and dangerous, to a series of deep pools in which we glimpse universal humanity reflected. As you finish one story, you want to start the next." —Robert Swanson, former writer/ producer of Murder, She Wrote "From Madagascar to Burkina Faso, Hunter's stories chronicle Africa's
unfailing influence on the human spirit, its subtle effect on characters’ lives. Africa,
Africa! offers readers front row seats in observing how Africa marks those who travel
it." "Once Africa gets in your blood-stream, it is there forever. No one
understands this better than Frederic Hunter. His Africa, Africa! stories make
old Africa hands want to drop everything and head back for the life of daily adventure
Hunter depicts so knowledgeably. Newcomers to the continent will find insight to help them
face its many baffling enigmas." |
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excerpts from Africa, Africa! At
the Edge of the Jungle A Newsman Scratches an Itch Pepper North of Nairobi Equateur (complete story) Card Players Lenoir Elizabeth Who Disappeared Africa, Africa! |
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