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May 18, 2007 | Blog |  No comments

Author Terry Ryan passes away.

By Amy Mercer

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

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