{"id":18146,"date":"2013-04-14T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=18146"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:22:55","slug":"splash_dawid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=18146","title":{"rendered":"Reviews, Commentaries and Stories by Annie Dawid"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Portrait<\/a>
Portrait by Darryl Halbrooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An English professor and director of creative writing for 15 years at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Annie Dawid<\/strong> left full-time teaching for full-time writing in her home in Colorado. She can be reached at annie@anniedawid.com<\/a>. Her website is http:\/\/www.anniedawid.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She is the author of Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown<\/em><\/a> (Chipping Norton, UK: Inkspot Publishing, 2023). Several articles, reviews and podcasts appear immediately below. Her stories about her 19-year effort to find a home for her novel appear at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n

She is currently working on a new book of short stories<\/a> \"NEW\" interweaving the lives of the people of Jonestown.<\/p>\n

Reflections by Annie Dawid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jim Jones & Donald J. Trump: What Do They Share?<\/a> (2025) \"NEW\"<\/p>\n

Paradise Undone<\/em> Celebrates Anniversary of Publication<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n

Persistence Pays Off for Jonestown Novelist: An Author’s Journey<\/a> (2023)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reviews and podcasts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paradise Undone<\/em>: The Reviews<\/a> (2024)
\nParadise Undone<\/em>: Blogs and Podcasts<\/a> (2024)
\nAll Are Punished<\/a>, A review by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons (2023)
\nParadise Undoing<\/a>, A review by darlene anita scott (2023)
\nNew Books Network<\/a>, November 14, 2023
\nAnnie Dawid interview with Peter Okonkwo of Nigeria<\/a>, December 27, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Short Stories by Annie Dawid<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marceline Baldwin Meets Jim Jones<\/a> (2021)<\/p>\n

Long Before Jonestown: Indianapolis, 1956<\/a> (2017)<\/p>\n

Jonestown, Japantown<\/a> (2017)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reviews and commentaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Bloodlines<\/em>: A Jonestown Subtext to a Family in Disarray<\/a> (2018)<\/p>\n

New Materials Worth Reading in Jones Biography<\/a> (2017)<\/p>\n

Jonestown Plays Minor Role in Novel<\/a> (2017)<\/p>\n

Fictional Cults Lack Verisimilitude<\/a> (2016)<\/p>\n

\u201cAre We Black, Proud and Socialist?\u201d<\/a> (2015)<\/p>\n

Poetic Faith: A Review of\u00a0Children of Paradise: A Novel<\/i><\/a> (2014)<\/p>\n

A Long And Suffering People<\/a> (2013)<\/p>\n

Complicating Matters: A Review of Stories from Jonestown<\/em> <\/a> (2012)<\/p>\n

A Thousand Lives<\/em> A Painful and Disturbing Read<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n

Metaphor b. 11\/18\/78<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n

What They Chose<\/a> (2006)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Articles about her novel include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jonestown Manuscript Sees Partial Publication<\/a> (2014)<\/p>\n

Saying Farewell to Jonestown<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n

Jonestown, a \u201chard sell\u201d <\/a> (2009)<\/p>\n

Four Protagonists, One Author<\/a> (2007)<\/p>\n

The Yuck Factor<\/a> (2007)<\/p>\n

A Writer\u2019s Journal, Part II<\/a> (2006)<\/p>\n

Resurrection City: A Novel of Jonestown<\/em> \u2013 An Introduction and an Excerpt<\/a> (2006)<\/p>\n

Fathom These Events: Jonestown, a Novel<\/em>: A writer\u2019s journal, excerpts<\/a> (2005)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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