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Show Title: BookCast Interview with Maria Petringa
Show Length: 15:33
Show Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:14:52
Show Notes:
Maria Petringa is the author of Brazza, A Life for Africa, the biography of a humanitarian 19th-century explorer. She became interested in her subject while living in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and wondered why the town was named for a white colonial. Born in Boston, a graduate of Harvard and the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Petringa has spent her adult life in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She has worked as a teacher and translator, and is now a non-fiction writer and art critic. She lives in Paris.
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