Gretchen Cassel Eick will be reading from her new novel, Resistance, on June 12, from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Watermark Books, Wichita, Kansas.
World traveler Gretchen Cassel Eick moved to Kansas, earned a PhD, and became professor of history after a decade working on foreign and military policy in Washington, DC. She wrote two prize-winning nonfiction books: Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954–1972 (University of Illinois, 2001/2007/2023—which won three awards, is referenced on the wall of the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture, and resulted in a PBS documentary and public park— and They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans’ Story (University of Nevada Press, 2020).
After retiring from full-time teaching in 2013, she wrote six published novels —political/historical fiction, thrillers, and a family saga: The Set Up, 1984, Finding Duncan, Maybe Crossings, Dark Crossings, and Where is Ana Amara?, and Resistance!
Eick was awarded three Fulbright fellowships to travel and teach overseas and teaches at Wichita State University in its Life-Long Learning Program.
Poet and writer Janice Northerns will interview Gretchen on June 12 at 6:00-7:00 p.m. at Watermark Books, focusing on her new novel, RESISTANCE!
After retiring from full-time teaching in 2013, she wrote six published novels —political/historical fiction, thrillers, and a family saga: The Set Up, 1984, Finding Duncan, Maybe Crossings, Dark Crossings, and Where is Ana Amara?, and Resistance!
Eick was awarded three Fulbright fellowships to travel and teach overseas and teaches at Wichita State University in its Life-Long Learning Program.
Poet and writer Janice Northerns will interview Gretchen on June 12 at 6:00-7:00 p.m. at Watermark Books, focusing on her new novel, RESISTANCE!
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