Elizabeth Schow

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Gender Female
Occupation Librarian / Writer
Location United States
Introduction Elizabeth Schow is a librarian by day and a writer by night. She’s written three novels which are in various stages of edits and has several other stories in progress. In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys letting dark chocolate melt away in her mouth and traveling whenever she can and where ever the winds are willing to take her. Updated 6 March 2012
Interests Reading, writing, history, languages, travel, food, cultures, customs, storytelling, performing arts, people, art, literature, old movies, movies
Favorite Movies Dirty Dancing, Our Mutual Friend, North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell), 28 Days, Speed, Dark Passage, Midnight, Rope, Foreign Correspondent, Charade, To Catch a Thief, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Casablanca, Teacher's Pet, (This is not in any order and is certainly not a complete list!)
Favorite Music Frank Sinatra, Big Band, Alternative Rock, Celtic, Opera, Classical, Pop, Jazz, Blue Grass, hmmm - basically I like anything other than modern (Twangy) country.
Favorite Books Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Nemisis by Jo Nesbo, Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris, This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart, Incident at Badamya by Dorothy Gilman, The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie, Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton, Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland, A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George, The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Liars Anonymous by Louise Ure, Brandenburg Gate by Henry Porter, Broken Vessel by Kate Ross, On Writing by Stephen King, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, Spunk & Bite by Arthur Plotnik, The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman, The Postmistress by Sarah Blake, Among Thieves by David Hosp, Cuddly Dudley by Jez Alborough, Penguin by Polly Dunbar, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, (Choose - as if. This is not in any order and is certainly not a complete list!)