Pamela Ditchoff Explained

Pamela Ditchoff
Birth Name:Pamela Jane Reed
Birth Date:21 September 1950
Birth Place:East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Alma Mater:Lansing Community College (AA, 1979)
Michigan State University (BA, 1982; MA, 1985)
Occupation:Writer

Pamela Jane Ditchoff (born September 21, 1950) is an American novelist.

Life and work

Pamela Jane Reed was born on September 21, 1950, in East Lansing, Michigan, to Beatrice Watson (Porter) and Ronald Ernest Reed.[1] [2] She attended Fairview School and later East Lansing High School[3] before graduating from Lansing Community College (associate degree, 1979). In a 2016 interview with the student newspaper at Lansing Community College, she described her work on the school newspaper and the resources made available to her while she attended the community college.[4] After Lansing Community College, she moved to Michigan State University where she earned a B.A. in 1982 and an M.A. in 1985.[1] [4]

In the mid-1980s, her early fiction and poetry was published in various literary magazines.[5]

Ditchoff's first novel, The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies (Coffee House Press, 1995) is a semi-fictional oral history of dwarves, giants, conjoined twins and bearded women.[6] [7] The book was reviewed on NPR's All Things Considered[8] and The New York Times.[9] Giving the novel one out of four stars, Rebecca E. Roberts wrote for Detroit Free Press that Mirror "ultimately amounts to snippets of history, thinly coated with imagined dialogue and fiddled events".[10] It was considered "well researched and well written" when reviewed by ALA Booklist as a debut novel.[3]

Ditchoff's second novel Seven Days & Seven Sins (2003)[3] was published by Shaye Areheart[11] and reviewed by The Washington Post.[12] Set in Lansing, the novel is composed of chapters that each function as standalone short stories.[13]

Ditchoff's third novel, Mrs. Beast (Stay Thirsty Press, 2009),[14] is about the lives of the Grimm's Fairy Tales princesses after marriage. Ditchoff's sequel to Mrs. Beast entitled Princess Beast was published by Stay Thirsty Press in September 2010. Ditchoff's fifth novel, Phoebe's Way (ECW Press, 2014), is the story of a Saint John Ambulance therapy dog.

Ditchoff recorded an oral history interview for Michigan State's Michigan Writers Series.[15]

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Book: Contemporary Authors. Contemporary Authors. Gale. 1996. 0-8103-9349-2. Edgar. Kathleen J.. new revision series. 150. 112–114. Ditchoff, Pamela J.. 35020137. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ditchoff-pamela-jane-1950.
  2. Book: Johnson. Curt. Who's Who in Writers, Editors & Poets: United States & Canada, 1992–1993. December Press. 1992. 0913204250. 4th. Highland Park, Illinois. 131. 1049-8621. 1151785823.
  3. News: Tales from the 'hood . Lansing State Journal . 26 . July 18, 2003.
  4. Web site: Kohn. Jeremy. March 4, 2016. Pamela Ditchoff gains fame as author. December 9, 2021. The Lansing Community College Lookout.
  5. Stud, South Florida Poetry Review 4, Spring 1986; Interim, Amelia 12, 1988; Calamity Crossing, Thema, Winter 1988/89; Solution Sestina, Amelia 14, 1989 - Winner of Bernice Jennings Traditional Poetry Award; Second Sight, Negative Capability, Vol. X, #1, 1990; Address, Slipstream #10, 1990; Bath Mirror, Amelia 17, 1990; Floribunda, West #7, 1992; Concert in the Bread Loaf Barn in Whose Woods These Are, ed. David Bain, Ecco Press, 1993; Fourteen in I Am Becoming the Woman I Always Wanted, Papier-Mache Press, 1994; Lakeside Park Concert, Gargoyle #48, 2005
  6. News: Guy. David. 1996-03-10. Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-12-06. 0362-4331. .
  7. News: Dery. Mark. April 1, 1998. Freak Chic: The literature of medical oddities goes mainstream. The Village Voice. .
  8. Web site: RealAudio: NPR's All Things Considered. npr.org. 2014-04-24.
  9. News: Guy. David. 1996-03-10. Books in Brief: FICTION & POETRY. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-12-10. 0362-4331.
  10. News: Roberts. Rebecca E.. January 3, 1996. Fact and imagination mix, but leave only a muddle. Detroit Free Press. newspapers.com.
  11. News: Sampson. Hannah. July 27, 2003. Sin on the street where you live. Miami Herald. newspapers.com.
  12. News: Roca. Elizabeth. 2003-07-20. Tracking the fickle human heart, from Lansing to Berlin to Langley.. en-US. Washington Post. 2021-12-10. 0190-8286.
  13. News: Haley. Thomas. July 20, 2003. Stories reveal private drama. Star Tribune. newspapers.com.
  14. Web site: Nawotka. Edward. June 29, 2009. Stay Thirsty Lures Veteran Writers. 2021-12-06. Publishers Weekly. en.
  15. Web site: October 8, 1999. Novelist Pamela Ditchoff. Michigan State University Libraries. December 6, 2021.
  16. Web site: Instructors. 2021-12-10. Seniors' College Association of Nova Scotia. en.
  17. 1991. Back Matter - 1991 Chicago Review Contest. Chicago Review. 37. 2/3. 25305510 . 0009-3696.
  18. Ditchoff. Pamela. 1991. Prodigies. Chicago Review. 37. 2/3. 5–22. 10.2307/25305485. 25305485 . 0009-3696.

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