- Sallyann J. Murphey
Sallyann J. Murphey is an
author .At the age of 23 she became a producer for the
BBC World Service , producing the current affairs program "24 Hours " and the magazine program, "Outlook ." A year later, she moved over toBBC Radio 4 and was appointed a producer to their flagship news and current events program, "The World At One ." During her five-year tenure there, she rose to the position ofprogram editor , specializing in the inner workings ofGreat Britain ’s Labour Party and in the coverage of theUnited States . In1982 , she joinedBBC1 Television as a news and current affairs producer, working on the daily evening news program, Nationwide, and then on the team who developed Britain’s first-ever morning show, "BBC Breakfastime ."In 1984, Murphey was invited by
ITV to establish their American news operation for "Good Morning Britain ," the then-sister program to "Good Morning America ." She moved toNew York in1985 , where she met her husband, photographerGreg Murphey , a year later. The couple moved toChicago, Illinois at the end of her contract. Murphey continued to work as a British journalist, writing investigative features for the "London Observer ", the "London Daily Mail " and IPC Magazines. She also served as contributing editor on "The Chicago Times Magazine " and was published in The "Utne Reader ".In 1991, she moved to Brown County,
Indiana , where she wrote her first book, "Bean Blossom Dreams - A City Family’s Search for a Simple Country Life", which was published byWilliam Morrow in1994 . The book received national acclaim and, a year later, she was selected to write the first work of original fiction ever commissioned byHallmark andBetter Homes & Gardens , who published her short story, "Emma’s Christmas Wish," in1996 .Two years later,
Putnam Berkley published "The Zen of Food - a Philosophy of Nourishment", a collection of essays which uses our attitudes to food as a metaphor for our attitudes to life. Murphey’s work, "The Metcalfe Family Album - Six Generations of Traditions and Memories", was published byChronicle Books in1999 . Nominally a work of fiction in which six generations of women from the same family keep a record of their lives, it is tightly tied to American & Indiana history from1835 to1996 .Indiana University Press will be publishing an updated edition of Bean Blossom Dreams in Spring 2008.
Ms Murphey has appeared on
Oprah ,Good Morning America , andNational Public Radio .For more information see author's web site at: [http://www.sallyannmurphey.com]
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