![]() ![]() Contemporary life in Hawaii, and the deterioration of the islands’ old ways is her milieu.Įven before “The Descendants” was published she received a rather significant amount of acclaim for a debut writer (check out a short interview NPR did with her in 2006). Originally, the story of “The Descendants” was touched upon in a collection of short stories she ultimately published as “ House of Thieves“. In a touching article written in 2008 for The Guardian newspaper in the U.K., she explained her fascination with the subject of family – which is at the heart of “The Descendants”. Eventually, she got a few small items published. “I have quite a stack of them,” she told a Honolulu television station earlier this year. ![]() She attended Colorado College, a private liberal arts school in Colorado Springs, Colo., and later Sarah Lawrence College in New York City then, she applied for and won a Wallace Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.Īll the while, she kept writing, submitting ideas and articles to editors, and receiving rejection letters. She also had an interest in writing, and her teachers at the exclusive Punahou School in Honolulu apparently noticed her aptitude in this area, and encouraged her. ![]() He is also a published writer, and a newspaper columnist. Hemmings leveraged his surfing celebrity and community activism into a political career he was as a state legislator (a representative for six years, then a senator), beginning in 1984, until his retirement from elected office in 2010. ![]()
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