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O'Connor, Karen
KAREN O'CONNOR " has written more than 50 books, including Squeeze the Moment, Help, Lord! I?m Having a Senior Moment! and Help, Lord! I?m Having a Senior Moment?Again! She is a popular speaker, instructor and consultant who has appeared on many national and international television and radio programs, including The 700 Club and the Sally Jessy Raphael Show. She is the recipient of The San Diego Writers Guild 1997 Author of the Year Award, and the 2002 Mount Hermon Special Recognition Award. She and her husband, Charles, have five children and make their home in Watsonville, California. ? ?
000254710|01|AU|New Orleans, LA; Professor, Department of Marketing and Logistics; The University of New Orleans
000254740|01|AU|Makuto Oda is a novelist and peace activist. His first literary fame came with the 1961 bestseller "Nan demo mite varo" (I'll Look at Anything). He is also the author of "Hiroshima," first translated into English as "The Bomb" and later republished as "H," Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, most recently, "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852--1912" and "Five Modern Japanese Novelists," both published by Columbia. He divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.
000254741|01|AU|Mayumi Oda was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1941. Her paintings are exhibited internationally, and her recent work as an activist includes coordination of the World Court Project, an effort to make nuclear weapons illegal, and helping to establish a women s refuge center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Mayumi currently lives, farms, and swims in Kealakekua, Hawaii.
000254749|01|AU|Odaka-Hitotsubashi University
000254754|01|AU|Odate was apprenticed in Japan.
000254762|01|AU|ALISON ODDEY, performer, writer, broadcaster and teacher, is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She was appointed Chair in Contemporary Performance in 2000, and her publications include Devising Theatre (Routledge, 1994) and Performing Women (first edition published 1999) as well as a forthcoming book, Shifting Directions: A New Kind of Theatre-Making in the Twenty-First Century (MUP, 2005). Her research focuses on contemporary experimental performance, exploring cross-art forms, creation and collaboration in relation to the notion of directing such work in the context of performing, visual, sonic, virtual and multi-media arts. Alison has also presented a series on BBC Radio 4, 'Stand-ups and Strumpets', as a consequence of the publication of the first edition of Performing Women.
000254763|01|AU|Bill Oddie is well known as "Britain's best-known bird-watcher" and natural history presenter. His recent programs include "Bill Oddie goes Wild," three series of "Birding with Bill Oddie, Bird in the Nest, and BBC - Nature Watch." He has also written the highly successful book "Birdwatching with Bill Oddie." Stephen Moss has been an active birdwatcher all his life and has written several books on the subject. A journalist and broadcaster, he writes regularly for the "Guardian" and "Birdwatch" magazine. He has produced numerous series with Bill Oddie. Fiona Pitcher is executive editor at the BBC's Natural History Unit. She has worked with Bill Oddie for several years and is responsible for such series as "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" and "Big Cat Diary.
