An RPCV Thailand couple tonight, (2/12/15) won the game with $15,000, and the Bonus round for another $32,000….. From Hawaii, they are just married. They also won a trip to Chine! The last time the Peace Corps made a prime time debut was on Jeopardy when Matt Losak (Lesotho 1985-88; staff NYRO and HQ ‘1992-97) placed the agency in a category for the 35th Anniversary.
Read MoreI vote for One Degree South by Steve Snook.
Following is a list of the 2014 novels and short story collections written by RPCVs. Nominate books from this list for the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. (If your novel or collection ((not Peace Corps memoir)) is not listed, and it was published in 2014, please email me at: jcoyneone@gmail.com.) Nominate your favorite book by emailing: jcoyneone@gmail.com. THE MARIA THOMAS FICTION AWARD is named after the novelist Maria Thomas [Roberta Worrick (Ethiopia 1971-73)] who was the author of a well-reviewed novel – Antonia Saw the Oryx First, and two collections of short stories, Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage: And Other Stories and African Visas: A Novella and Stories, all set in Africa. Roberta lost her life in August, 1989, while working in Ethiopia for a relief agency. She went down in the plane crash that also killed her husband, Thomas Worrick (Ethiopia 1971-73), and Congressman Mickey Leland of Texas. . . .
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