Author Terry Ryan passes away.

Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, May 16th at her home in San Francisco after a battle with cancer. Ryan’s mother daughter memoir tells the story of a woman who, “raised ten kids on twenty-five words or less.” The memoir was made into a movie staring Julianne Moore and recently reviewed by LM’s Caroline Grant in Mama At The Movies. Read a local story about Terry Ryan at,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/17/BAGP0P3U2E115.DTL