Richard Calloway, Forgotten Hero
Upcoming new book by Jean Sorrell Hurley
Richard Calloway, Forgotten Hero
Upcoming new book by Jean Sorrell Hurley
Jean Sorrell Hurley
Jean Sorrell Hurley attended Oklahoma University and the University of Louisiana, earning an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts then her Master's and Ph.D in English Literature and Creative Writing. She has taught Humanities and English Composition at ULL, edited a quarterly magazine featuring performing arts of the South; written "Madame, the Story of Eugenie Aude," named best screenplay by the Louisiana Film Commission; and has had two novels published by Inkwater Press: "The Returning" and Shadow of Death."
Her newest project is a biography based on the life of Colonel Richard Calloway, soon to be published by Covenant Books. The author is a direct descendant to Calloway. She was inspired by her grandmother, Margaret Henrietta Calloway, to find an answer for a question she had carried with her for a lifetime. When the unraveling of the Colonel's life in Bedford County, Virginia, and at Boonesborough, Kentucky was completed, it would give closure to the mystery proposed by her grandmother those many years ago, but also reveal Calloway's true nature. It has been said that heroism is often not sought, but always earned. Richard Calloway was destined to be a true hero of his time.
More from Jean
The Returning
Shadow of Death
Shadow of Death
Published by Inkwater Press
It is the summer of 1951 in Kansas City, six years following the end of World War II. The worst flood of the century is about to happen, but eleven-year-old Sara Johnson and the rest of her neighbors along Southwest Boulevard have no idea of the impending disaster.
Sara clings to the belief that her father, missing in action since the battle of Iwo Jima, will return to her. She finds a kindred spirit in her friend, Nathalie Springer, a Jewish refugee from France, whose uncle owns the bookstore down the street. The two girls, with the help of a mysterious book and its author, Aaron Fishchel, explore the idea of soul transference, where people are reborn into the body of someone else. The reason for their interest is the unusual appearance of Trinity's new pastor. He looks amazingly like Sara's daddy. Coincidence or something deeper. What is God's plan for the hereafter? It might be unexplainable to the folks who live on Southwest Boulevard in Rosedale, Kansas, but not to an eleven-year-old-girl, who proves that love can cross all boundaries, including death.
Shadow of Death
Shadow of Death
Shadow of Death
Published by Inkwater Press
1940. Louisiana. The body of Sister Mary Gretchen is discovered hanging from the balcony in a deserted mansion next to the Hanson's Disease Leper Colony on the banks of the Mississippi River.
In New Orleans, Mary Gretchen's sister, Catherine Lyle, doesn't want to retrieve the nun's body. It's not because she doesn't love her older sister, but because she's afraid to go outside her house. For almost twenty years Catherine has lived with a terrible secret, carried deep inside her sub-conscious, suppressed behind the safety of her portraits and her restoration of damaged works of art. But while the journey up river to the colony terrifies her, Catherine knows she has no other choice but to go.
As Catherine tries to put her fears aside, she finds compelling reasons to reject the decision her sister's death was suicide. From the hemp noose around her sister's neck, the blood beneath her fingernails, strange unrelated clues are compiled. When Catherine gets close to discovering the murderer, she finds herself marked for death.
In the midst of the lush, exotic setting of a lonely colony of dying souls, readers will find themselves transported to a time and place that is no more.