Writing - Afghanistan: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 by Afghanistan RPCV Jim Rumford 5 October 2001 Writing - Afghanistan: RPCV Jim Rumford writes historical novel about Afghanistan 20 September 2001 Writing - Barbados: Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis: Our Man in Haiti 6 April 2003 Writing - Barbados: An interview with writer and journalist, Bob Shacochis, Barbados RPCV 7 July 2001 Writing - Barbados: Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis - "I went there, underage, to go surfing. Against the wishes of my parents. The Peace Corps was a scheme to get back [at them]. I got off the plane in Barbados with my surfboard and everybody laughed...Peace Corps volunteers are like sailors—they read like crazy. You're often alone. So you read books." 7 July 2001 Writing - Barbados: When Bob Shacochis was a Peace Corps volunteer, he served as an agricultural journalist in the Caribbean, the backdrop for his American Book Award-winning short story collection, "Easy in the Islands." 7 July 2001 Writing - Barbados: Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis rants on the importance of living abroad 7 July 2001 Writing - Botswana: Botswana Country Director Norman Rush's 'Mortals' lives up to the promise of 'Mating' 8 June 2003 Writing - Botswana: Interview with Botswana Peace Corps Country Director Norman Rush, Author of "Mating" 8 June 2003 Writing - Botswana: RPCV Norman Rush has new novel on Botswana 1 June 2003 Writing - Botswana: Norman Rush was co-director of the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983 and wrote "Whites" 27 June 2001 Writing - Botswana: RPCVs review "Whites" by Peace Corps/ Botswana Co-Director Norman Rush 27 June 2001 Writing - Botswana: Changing the world one life at a time by Botswana RPCV Dana Hinders 27 June 2001 Writing - Brazil: Jim Stallings, Short Story Writer - served in the Peace Corps in Brazil 23 June 2001 Writing - Brazil: Actor Peter Lownds, friend of Jack Kerouac, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern Brazil in the mid-sixties 23 June 2001 Writing - Burkina Faso: In 1966, Eli H. Newberger and Carolyn left for Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), with our five-week-old daughter. 26 May 2003 Writing - Burkina Faso: Treating this Heavy Midlife of Men by Burkina Faso RPCV Eli H. Newberger, M.D. 26 May 2003 Writing - Cameroon: Ten days after she graduated from CCSU, Smith entered the Peace Corps, unaware, perhaps, that she would be further enriching her stock of stories 26 May 2003 Writing - Cameroon: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be In My Skin by Cameroon RPCV Susana Herrera 26 May 2003 Writing - Chile: A Peace Corps Profile of a Volunteer in Nicaragua and Chile 13 April 2003 Writing - Chile: Waiting for the Snow : The Peace Corps Papers of a Charter Volunteer 3 July 2001 Writing - Chile: Waiting for the Snow : The Peace Corps Papers of Charter Volunteer Thomas Scanlon 3 July 2001 Writing - China: Talking with Peter Hessler 16 February 2003 Writing - China: Reviews of Peter Hesler's River Town 16 February 2003 Writing - China: China RPCV Peter Hessler writes about Tibet through Chinese Eyes 16 February 2003 Writing - China: Excerpt from River Town. Peter Hessler's memoir of his Peace Corps service in China 16 February 2003 Writing - China: Peter Hessler to read in Washington DC on Janauary 15 3 January 2002 Writing - Congo Kinshasa: Writer Nicholas Hershenow was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire (Congo) in the 1980s - When we were in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Congo), my wife and I lived in a village that was built around a decaying, but still operating, palm oil mill. 18 April 2003 Writing - Congo Kinshasa: In 1973 Bill Weber and Amy Vedder were Peace Corps volunteers in eastern Congo, with much more to learn before we could make any meaningful contribution to conservation. 18 April 2003 Writing - Congo Kinshasa: The Road Building by Zaire RPCV Nicholas Hershenow 18 April 2003 Writing - Congo Kinshasa: The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn by Zaire RPCV Mike Tidwell 18 April 2003 Writing - Congo Kinshasa: Former peace corps volunteer Mike Tidwell visits Congo Kinshasa 18 April 2002 Writing - Congo Kinshasa: Voices from the Field: Using Peace Corps Literature like Mike Tidwell's Account of Zaire 12 August 2001 Writing - Dominica: Soul Kiss by Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood 8 June 2003 Writing - Dominica: Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood 8 June 2003 Writing - Dominica: Interview with Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood 8 June 2003 Writing - Dominica: Interview with Dominica RPCV Author Shay Youngblood 7 July 2001 Writing - Dominica: Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood: Voices from the Gaps 7 July 2001 Writing - Dominica: Author Shay Youngblood joined the Peace Corps and was stationed on Dominica. 7 July 2001 Writing - Eastern Caribbean: RPCV Bob Shacochis chronicles the Caribbean in novels that evoke the impact of American society and culture on the rest of the world 24 January 2002 Writing - Eastern Caribbean;: Become an Expat 1 November 2002 Writing - Ecuador: The Peace Corps, and Postcolonial Travel Literature: Moritz Thomsen was a Peace Corps volunteer who remained permanently in Ecuador and wrote three non-fiction books in the mode of travel literature about his adopted home 19 April 2003 Writing - Ecuador: Peace Corps Volunteer Moritz Thomsen's "Living Poor" 19 April 2003 Writing - Ecuador: Peace Corps Volunteer Moritz Thomsen's "Farm on the River of Esmeralds" 19 April 2003 Writing - Ecuador: Peace Corps Volunteer Moritz Thomsen's unpublished book "Bad news from a black coast" 19 April 2003 Writing - Ecuador: Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Ecuador RPCV Moritz Thomsen 25 June 2001 Writing - Ecuador: Did anyone know Moritz Thomsen? 8 May 2001 Writing - El Salvador: RPCV Colin Gallagher wins Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry 20 May 2003 Writing - Ethiopia: Mystery author and Ethiopia RPCV Richard Lipez comes out and leaves the pseudonym behind 18 April 2003 Writing - Ethiopia: Richard Lipez taught English language and composition to ninth grade public school students as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia 18 July 2001 Writing - Ethiopia: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Ethiopia RPCV Mildred Taylor 18 July 2001 Writing - Ghana: Ghana RPCV James Eckardt is a renowned farang author who resides in Thailand 26 May 2003 Writing - Hungary: Over the Hill in Hungary by Virginia White 18 May 2003 Writing - Hungary: In the early 1990s, Simone Zelitch joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Hungary, which she already knew would be the setting of a novel-in-progress about a Holocaust survivor and her gentile daughter-in-law 18 May 2003 Writing - India: India RPCV Nancy Farmer writes Science Fiction novel on Stem Cell Research 23 February 2003 Writing - India: Brent Ashabranner, Director of the Peace Corps in India 24 June 2001 Writing - Indonesia: Kinky Friedman joins the Peace Corps and goes to Borneo 1 November 2001 Writing - Iran: Iran RPCV Jerome W. Clinton translates the story of Rostam and Esfandiyar 29 April 1999 Writing - Jamaica: Two Years in Kingston Town - A Peace Corps Memoirby Jeff Koob 25 May 2003 Writing - Kazakhstan: "Gift of the USA" blows the lid off Peace Corps Kazakhstan 26 February 2003 Writing - Korea: The Seed of Joy by William Amos,PCV South Korea, 1979 4 July 2001 Writing - Liberia: RPCV Peter Schwab writes book about Africa 13 January 2002 Writing - Malawi: Theroux tells 'African story' 24 May 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Andrew Oerke receives Award of Excellence of the United Nations Society of Writers and Artists 27 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux Goes Native 25 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Symphony Number One and Selected Poems by Malawi RPCV Andrew Oerke, published by Mellen University Press, Reviewed by Thomas Jones 24 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Symphony Number One And Selected Poems by Malawi RPCV Andrew Oerke 24 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux finds hardship an integral part of revisiting 'old, eternal Africa 20 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux's Safari spans continent of Africa 15 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV and best-selling author Paul Theroux talks about Kenya, Ethiopia and Foreign Aid to Africa 2 April 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Theroux returns to Africa: Little light in the heart of darkness 19 March 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux at his cranky best returns to Malawi 3 March 2003 Writing - Malawi: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux's journey through Africa 30 January 2003 Writing - Malawi: Review of Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux's latest book on Africa 30 October 2002 Writing - Malawi: 'To Africa With Spatula' takes joyful look at Africa, Peace Corps 1 April 2002 Writing - Malaysia: Paul Eggers served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia 1 January 1999 Writing - Mongolia: RPCV Katie Ives start a literary magazine as a volunteer featuring the work of Mongolian writers 13 April 2003 Writing: Morocco RPCV Jeffrey Tayler faces the Congo 22 November 2002 Writing - Morocco: Morocco RPCV and Poety Theatre Founder Don Wilsun dies in Seattle 26 May 2003 Writing - Morocco: Morocco RPCV Jeffrey Tayler on how to recognize bad Peace Corps Writing 24 May 2003 Writing - Namibia: Namibia RPCV Palmer Owyoung writes first novel 1 April 2003 Writing - Nicaragua: A Peace Corps Profile of a Volunteer in Nicaragua and Chile 13 April 2003 Writing - Niger: Riding the Demon : On the Road in West Africa by Peter Chilson, RPCV 5 July 2001 Writing - Niger: Alix Fedoruk's Niger Page 5 July 2001 Writing - Peru: The Mourning of Angels by Peru RPCV Patricia Edmisten 26 June 2001 Writing - Philippines: Phillipines RPCV Charles Atkinson wins national poetry award 14 March 2003 Writing - Sierra Leone: "After The Twilight" by Sierra Leone RPCV Peg De Marco who lived in Nigeria 25 May 2003 Writing - Somalia: Aman, the Story of a Somali Girl as told to Birginia Lee Barnes and Janice Boddy. Lee Barnes, worked with the Peace Corps in Somalia between 1965 and 1967. 6 July 2001 Writing - Somalia: The Last Camel : True Stories of Somalia by Jeanne D'Haem, a Peace Corps volunteer in Somalia in 1968 6 July 2001 Writing - Tanzania: Tanzania RPCV Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen writes children's books 12 March 2003 Writing - Thailand: The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award for Best Travel Writing has been awarded to Joe Cummings for Lonely Planet Bangkok 22 February 2003 Writing - The Gambia: In 1979, Bruce [Trimble] and I decided to do "something different." We joined the Peace Corps and served for two years in Gambia, a tiny country located along the Atlantic coast of Africa, running inland on either side of the Gambia River and surrounded on three sides by Senegal 27 April 2003 Writing - Tunisia: Men at Riskby Tunisia RPCV Samuel Atlee 28 January 2003 Writing - Tunisia: The Reluctant Agent by Tunisia RPCV Phillip Kurata 14 January 2003 Writing - Tunisia: Tim McLaurin began writing while in the Peace Corps in Tunisia 6 July 2001 Writing - Tunisia: Much to the chagrin of her parents, L.L. Kirchner quit her full-time job at the Ohio Arts Council in 1994 to join the Peace Corps in Tunisia 6 July 2001 Writing - Tunisia: Tim McLaurin, who grew up on the outskirts of Fayetteville, N.C., began writing while in the Peace Corps in Tunisia, 1982-1983. His first novel was published in 1989. 6 July 2001 Writing - Tunisia: Tim McLaurin Papers Initial Inventory 1 October 1997