Joyce Hackett, born in Pennsylvania, USA, in 1961. M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Columbia University, New York City. Novelist in New York City.

Writer-in-Residence (1 September 2010 – 31 January 2011)

RECONSTRUCTION: A NOVEL

While at NIAS I worked steadily on my novel “Reconstruction: A Novel”, and completed four chapters. The novel explores the duel between America’s two most famous 19th century activists, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and suffragist Susan B. Anthony.

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