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Dr.
Florence Weinberg
Born
in the high desert country, in Alamagordo, New Mexico,
Florence loved exploring the wilderness on foot and
horseback. Those grandiose landscapes formed her sensibility.
Hidden pockets of unexpected greenery tucked away near
springs in folds of barren mountainsides spoke to her
of gentleness and beauty in an otherwise harsh world.
She published her first poem in a children's magazine
shortly after she learned to read at age four; wrote
her first 'novel' at age six, entitled Ywain, King of
All Cats. She illustrated the 'book' herself.
Before
settling in San Antonio, Texas, she traveled extensively
as an army brat during World War II. With her husband
the brilliant scholar and teacher, Kurt Weinberg, she
worked and traveled in Canada, Germany, France, and
Spain. After earning her PhD, she taught for twenty-two
years at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY, and
for ten at Trinity University in San Antonio. She published
four scholarly books, many articles and book reviews,
doing research in the U.S. and abroad.
When,
after retiring in 1999, she was freed from academe to
devote herself to writing fiction, she produced eight
novels, ranging from fantasy to historical romance and
mystery. Four are in print as well as one in press:
a historical romance about the French Renaissance, published
in France in French translation, three historical mysteries,
starring the eighteenth-century Jesuit missionary Fr.
Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn. Two of these are set in
the Sonora Desert and the third in an ancient monastery
in Spain. The book in print, a historical novel, tells
of the struggle to found missions along the San Antonio
River.
Her
favorite animals are horses-an intense love affair over
many years-and cats, her constant companions. She enjoys
music, traveling, hiking, biking, gardening, and swimming.
Scholarly
works:
The Wine and the Will: Rabelais's Bacchic Christianity
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972)
Gargantua in a Convex Mirror: Fischart's View of
Rabelais (New York and Berne: Peter Lang, 1986)
The Cave: The Evolution of a Metaphoric Field from
Homer to Ariosto (New York and Berne: Peter Lang,
1986)
Rabelais et les leçons du rire: paraboles évangéliques
et néoplatoniciennes (Orléans: Editions Paradigme,
2000)
In addition, many articles in learned journals on French
and Spanish Renaissance subjects, contributions to literary
dictionaries, Festschrifts, collected volumes, etc.
Also, many reviews in specialized journals on French
literature both in this country and abroad.
Contact
Florence at florenceweinberg@juno.com
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