About Sharon Flitterman-King
Sharon Flitterman-King grew up in Southern California. She earned her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from UC Berkeley, writing on Victorian Fiction. She was a founding faculty member of the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking, and has written, taught, and lectured for many years. Her articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Independent, and The Artful Mind, as well as in collections on teaching and writing. She lives with her husband, writer David C. King, in Upstate New York near the Berkshires. Together they have written award-winning educational books (The Statue of Liberty; Readers’ Guide to Night by Elie Wiesel). Her widely acclaimed historical novel, A Secret Star (TBM, 2010), about a Jewish child hidden by Polish Christians during World War II, has received high praise from adults and young adults alike.
A Secret Star
Publisher: Troy Book Makers, 2010
$9.99
A Secret Star is a story about a Jewish child hidden by Polish Christians during World War II. Young Rachel Rosenblum must suddenly leave her family and be hidden by courageous strangers. During her ordeal she learns to be resourceful and resilient, and most important, she finds what she needs to survive. A Secret Star is a wonderful story full of wisdom and grace. Read it, and be renewed.
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“Amazing! Remarkable! The book is very, very nice. It reminds me of Jewish life in Poland, a little bit like Sholom Aleichem. A very fine description of Jewish life. It is very moving.”
– Leon Rubinstein, author of Escape to Freedom
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Survivor’s Song: A Nigun
Publisher: Troy Book Makers, 2013
Survivor’s Song: A Nigun, is a moving memoir about Berkeley in the ’60s, and life after. Woven in are other times and places, to make a rich tapestry of memory and forgiveness. This compelling chapbook explores, in lyrical prose, what makes a victim a survivor.
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Paradise Reclaimed: Collected Essays on Art and Writing
Publisher: Troy Book Makers, 2014
The essays and poems in this collection are culled from writing previously published. There are essays on John Constable and Camille Pissarro, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, among others. Poems and drawings accompany the words. The concluding essay, “Paradise Reclaimed: Or, How I Grew Up Through English,” explores the author’s relation to reading and writing while a student at Berkeley in the 1960s. All together these writings, remarkable for their rhythm and grace, prove that the life of the mind–the heart’s imagination–is alive and well, and flourishing.
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Articulate Terrain: A Study of Setting in Victorian Fiction
Publisher: Troy Book Makers, 2017
Ideas of place reflect ways of seeing. This study of setting in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles examines fictional place from this phenomenological perspective. It sees created space as the unique translation of each author’s perceptions of space, time and fact. Through this study, the worlds of the novels become necessary landscapes, or articulate terrains, guiding us to see more clearly each author’s own world view.
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