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Pamela Ditchoff
Pamela Jane Ditchoff (born September 21, 1950) is an American novelist. Life and work Pamela Jane Reed was born on September 21, 1950, in East Lansing, Michigan, to Beatrice Watson (Porter) and Ronald Ernest Reed. She attended Fairview School and later East Lansing High School before graduating from Lansing Community College (associate degree, 1979). In a 2016 interview with the student newspaper at Lansing Community College, she described her work on the school newspaper and the resources made available to her while she attended the community college. After Lansing Community College, she moved to Michigan State University where she earned a B.A. in 1982 and an M.A. in 1985. In the mid-1980s, her early fiction and poetry was published in various literary magazines. Ditchoff's first novel, ''The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies'' (Coffee House Press, 1995) is a semi-fictional oral history of dwarves, Giant (mythology), giants, conjoined twins and bearded women. The book was revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Most of the city lies within Ingham County, Michigan, Ingham County with a smaller portion extending north into Clinton County, Michigan, Clinton County. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 Census the population was 47,741. Located directly east of the state capital of Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, East Lansing is well-known as the home of Michigan State University. The city is part of the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area. History East Lansing is located on land that was an important junction of two major Native Americans in the United States, Native American groups: the Potawatomi and the Fox. By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing. The toll road was finished in 1853, and included seven toll houses between Lansing and Howell, Michigan, Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
