Melissa Fay Greene talks about There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children.
This volume is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. Today, Haregewoin runs a school, a day-care system and a shelter for sick mothers.
Greene, a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Good Housekeeping, has written for The New Yorker, Life, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, Ms., The Wilson Quarterly, Redbook, and Salon.com.
Bio
Melissa Fay Greene
Greene, a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Good Housekeeping, has written for The New Yorker, Life, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, Ms., The Wilson Quarterly, Redbook, and Salon.com. She was born in Macon, Georgia; lived in Dayton, Ohio, for the greater part of childhood; graduated from Oberlin College; and now lives in Atlanta with her husband, Don Samuel, a criminal defense attorney. They have been married for 27 years and are the parents of Molly, Seth, Lee, Lily, Fisseha, Jesse, and Helen Samuel.