Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age. No Marble Angels book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other.

A political thriller about strong-minded women and men, The Dark Path to the River tells a love story that moves between Wall Street and Africa.

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer and journalist whose works of fiction include No Marble Angels and The Dark Path to the River. She has published stories, essays and articles in books, magazines, and newspapers, including Short Stories of The Civil Rights Movement, Remembering Arthur Miller, Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales, Beyond Literacy. She is a Vice President Emeritus of PEN International and the former International Secretary of PEN International and served as Chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee and President of PEN USA. She serves on the boards of Poets and Writers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, the American Writers Museum, the International Center for Journalists, Words Without Borders, and Refugees International. She has served on the board and as Vice President of PEN American Center, the International Crisis Group and Save the Children. She is an Emeritus Trustee of Brown University and Johns Hopkins University, where she chaired the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, she has covered national and international issues and won awards for her writing. She has taught writing at New York University, City University of New York, Occidental College and UCLA Extension. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Texas Institute of Letters.

The Dark Path to the River is a love story, one of strong-minded women and men who do not see the world the same. It is a story of power and politics on Wall Street and in Africa. It is also the story of two women, friends and journalists, one black and one white, of their search for empowerment and of the men who both shape and are shaped by their worlds.

Author of No marble angels, The dark path to the river.

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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist whose works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Joanne is a Vice President and former International Secretary of PEN International and former Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. She serves on the boards of the International Crisis Group, Refugees International, the International Center for Journalists, the PEN Faulkner Foundation, Poets and Writers, Words Without Borders, and the American Writers Museum. She has served on the board and as Vice President of PEN American Center, Save the Children and is an emeritus board member of Human Rights Watch and an emeritus Trustee of Johns Hopkins and Brown Universities. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Texas Institute of Letters.

Nine stories deal with individuals trying to overcome the distances that divide them.