Sandra Salinas Newton
I am a Professor Emeritus of English 2005 who enjoys reading, computers, and writing. I’ve been able to pursue some of my personal interests (some of which remain “academic”), including a wider reading of my favorite poet T.S. Eliot and the scholarship about his works (and him), reading history, watching classic films, and pursuing a second career as a poet and fiction writer and creative writing. In the past, I’ve published textbooks on poetry and film, as well as some fiction. More recently, I’ve completed novels and published poetry both online and in print.
Born Again
BORN AGAIN, an historical fantasy combining biographical/cultural fact with character-rich fiction. For history buffs, this presents the real world as it evolves from the thirteenth to the twentieth century; for fans of magical realism, this story teases the idea of a selfish, malevolent spirit traveling through time.
A Passion For Tom
”The critics say I am learned and cold. The truth is I am neither,” T.S. Eliot was reported to have said to Virginia Woolf soon after the publication of his seminal poem The Waste Land. The novel combines biographical fact with fiction to imagine Eliot’s failed attempts to be other than a learned, cold man while writing The Waste Land.
Inevitable
INEVITABLE , based on true events although not memoir, is a literary love story about an urbane May-December relationship that ignites into a passionate affair reminiscent of Lucinda Franks’ memoir of her life with Robert Morgenthau; it is written in a style reminiscent of Elizabeth Strout’s compassionate realism. The novel is structured as a he-said-she-said narrative in alternating chapters, giving the reader both sides of the story as it unfolds.
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