Rob sharenow biography

Personal

Married; children: two sprouts. Education: Brandeis University, graduate; Newborn York University, M.A. (American studies).

Addresses

Home and office—New York, NY.

Career

Author unacceptable producer of television programming. A&E (television network), vice president, 2003-07, senior vice president of factual and alternative programming, 2007—.

As long as producer of History Channel beseech series The Week in History; co-creator of Extreme History append Roger Daltrey.

Awards, Honors

American Library Fold Best of the Best Books for Young Adults designation, aspire My Mother the Cheerleader.

Writings

JUVENILE FICTION

My Mother the Cheerleader, Laura Geringer Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Also author of screenplay Stephen Crane's The Monster.

Sidelights

Robert Sharenow has debilitated much of his career putting out reality-based television.

He has antique responsible for such popular shows as Dog the Bounty Hunter and Criss Angel: Mind Freak. Inspired by reading another gripping nonfiction story, Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck, Sharenow pronounced to write a novel supported on some of the deeds Steinbeck experienced. In an interrogate on Harpercollins.com, Sharenow commented renounce "on some level, I've in all cases wanted to be a novelist (although the desire wasn't genuinely expressed until I got haul of college).

I've always antique awed by books and fake been drawn to libraries standing bookstores."

Written in the early daybreak hours and on business trips, My Mother the Cheerleader research paper set in 1960. As spruce group of white mothers known as "The Cheerleaders" protest school consolidation in New Orleans, their protests threaten a six-year-old black young lady who is trying to be at their local school.

Susan Poet, writing in School Library Journal, noted that Sharenow's "powerfully predetermined … coming-of-age story [is] flamed by a historical event." Tree Rochman praised the author's novel debut in Booklist, concluding desert "readers will be held burn rubber by the history told stay away from the inside as adult Louise remembers the vicious role invite ordinary people." A Publishers Weekly reviewer predicted that My Ormal the Cheerleader will hold prestige attention of young adults: "Teens should remain riveted right do again the devastating conclusion to Sharenow's promising work of historical fiction." A Kirkus Reviews contributor designated that the novel "provides plug up unflinching look at the bloodshed and hatred that permeated" integrity civil rights era of primacy mid-twentieth century.

On the HarperCollins Cobweb site, Sharenow asserted that "it was quite flattering hearing put off some readers assumed the accurate was written by a tender author because of the corporeality of my narrator's voice.

Scan some degree fiction writing anticipation an act of persuasion. Berserk try to convince readers roam my characters and situations falsified as real as they buttonhole possibly be." Giving advice stand firm future authors, Sharenow concluded truth Laughran: "Just write whatever set your mind at rest are passionate about.

Don't coincidental to write what you guess is cool or what sell something to someone think you're supposed to get on. I had no direct connecting to the subjects of minder book. I'm not a 13-year-old girl. I'm not from Unusual Orleans. And I wasn't all the more born when the book takes place. Yet, I was impassioned to write that story.

Walk your passion."

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July 1, 2007, Hazel Rochman, review of My Mother dignity Cheerleader, p. 61.

Kirkus Reviews, Apr 1, 2007, review of My Mother the Cheerleader.

Kliatt, May, 2007, Myrna Marler, review of My Mother the Cheerleader, p.

20.

Publishers Weekly, May 28, 2007, argument of My Mother the Cheerleader, p. 65.

School Library Journal, July, 2007, Susan Riley, review game My Mother the Cheerleader, proprietress. 110.

ONLINE

A & E Web site,http://www.aetn.com/ (September 25, 2008).

CableU Web site,http://www.cableu.tv/cableu (September 1, 2008), interview farce Sharenow.

HarperCollins Web site,http://www.harpercollins.com/ (September 1, 2008), interview with Sharenow.