| Melissa Coleman | |
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| Born | 1969 |
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| Nationality | American |
Melissa Coleman (born 1969) is an American author and columnist best known as the author of This Life Is in Your Hands, a childhood memoir exploring her iconic family's search for a sustainable lifestyle.
Coleman was born in Brooksville, Maine to parents Sue and Eliot Coleman of the Back-to-the-land movement of the 60s and 70s, and her parents have been referred to as disciples of Scott and Helen Nearing. Coleman is a columnist for Maine and Maine Home and Design magazines, and serves on the board of the Telling Room, a Portland, Maine writing center for kids. Coleman lives in Freeport, Maine, with her twin daughters.
Bibliography
- Non-fiction
- This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone (2011)
References
- ^ Janet Maslin (April 6, 2011). "Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light". NYT.
- Maine In Print: Most Recent, May July 2011, Maine State Library
External links
Categories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- American columnists
- American women columnists
- American non-fiction environmental writers
- People from Brooksville, Maine
- People from Freeport, Maine
- American women memoirists
- Memoirists from Maine
- 21st-century American women journalists
- 21st-century American journalists
- 21st-century American memoirists
- 21st-century American women writers
- Journalists from Maine