{"id":160,"date":"2011-02-02T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2024-04-07T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T21:34:37","slug":"our-contributors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?page_id=160","title":{"rendered":"Our contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oconnor08_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163\" title=\"oconnor08_10\" src=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/oconnor08_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Man in Raleigh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul O&#8217;Connor is a veteran journalist who has written news, political analysis, columns, travel stories, book reviews and editorials for a number of publications. He retired from the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 after 30 years as an instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has wide-ranging interests, from American literature to military history and beyond. He&#8217;s an aficionado\u00a0of quality beers; in fact, he&#8217;s a beer snob. As a personal note, he&#8217;s also the best journalist I was ever forced to fire, evidence of \u00a0the sorry state of 21st century newspapering. Fortunately, he knew the &#8220;downsizing&#8221; wasn&#8217;t my fault, and he contributes his skills and insights to Briar Patch Books.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has now turned some of his attention to writing books. Most recently, he has written a genealogical mystery about his mother. Expect to hear more about that soon.<\/p>\n<p>Contact him at ocolumn@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writer and Reviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/anne-barnhill4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186\" title=\"anne barnhill\" src=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/anne-barnhill4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Barnhill, contributing writer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anne\u00a0Clinard Barnhill has been writing professionally for more than 20\u00a0years.\u00a0\u00a0Her debut novel, <em>At the Mercy of the Queen<\/em>, is forthcoming in 2012 from\u00a0St. Martin&#8217;s Press.\u00a0\u00a0Her first book, \u00a0<em>At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My\u00a0Sister and Me <\/em>(memoir, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2007), has received\u00a0good reviews, and her second book, <em>What You Long For<\/em> (short-story collection, <em>Main Street Rag<\/em>, has also been well received. \u00a0In her spare time, Anne enjoys playing piano and dancing around the kitchen to early Beatles&#8217; music.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, check out her website\/blog at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneclinardbarnhill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.anneclinardbarnhill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Man in Raleigh Paul O&#8217;Connor is a veteran journalist who has written news, political analysis, columns, travel stories, book reviews and editorials for a number of publications. He retired from the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 after 30 years as an instructor. Paul has wide-ranging interests, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}