"Stasiland" author turned to fiction for latest book

March 15th, 2012 - 

NEW YORK (Reuters) – As a former human rights lawyer and the author of non-fiction bestseller “Stasiland” about life in communist East Germany, Australian author Anna Funder knows a thing or two about digging deep to uncover the facts of history’s fascinating stories. Yet she decided to make her second book, “All That I Am,” a novel when even her most meticulous historical research couldn’t fill an important gap in the story of four friends forced to flee Germany when Hitler rose to power.

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"Blair Witch" actress details how life went to pot (Reuters)

January 6th, 2012 - 

Reuters – Heather Donahue is best known for 1999 horror film “The Blair Witch Project” that showed her hyperventilating and weeping in the forest as she and her friends were terrorized by unseen evil.

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