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Don Mitchell

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Born

Hilo, Hawai'i, The United States

Website

http://shibaithebook.com

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Jim Harrison, Ann Pancake, Lawrence Durrell, William Faulkner
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Member Since

May 2010

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I'm an ecological anthropologist, writer, and photographer who lived among the Nagovisi people of Bougainville for several years in the 1960s and 1970s, and returned in 2001 after Bougainville’s war of secession.

I grew up in Hilo, on the island of Hawai’i, and graduated from Hilo High. I studied anthropology and creative writing at Stanford and earned a PhD in anthropology from Harvard.

For many years I was a professor at Buffalo State in western New York, as well as a marathon and ultra-marathon runner and a successful road race timer (Runtime Services). I lived in Buffalo and later in Colden.

I published an academic book and articles about Nagovisi, but in the early 1990s I returned to what I had wanted to do when I was 20 -- creative writi ...more

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Don Mitchell In fact, a mystery from my own life became the plot for not one, but two non-fiction books. In 1969, my friend Jane Britton was murdered in Cambridge,…moreIn fact, a mystery from my own life became the plot for not one, but two non-fiction books. In 1969, my friend Jane Britton was murdered in Cambridge, MA, and the killed wasn't solved until nearly 50 years later.

Becky Cooper wrote "We Keep the Dead Close" (reviewed here on Goodreads) about the case, and I wrote "Shibai: Remembering Jane Britton's Murder" (also reviewed here on Goodreads). Both were published in 2020.

Becky's book takes a wide and comprehensive view of the case, whereas mine is more about how the case affected my life. I like to think they pair quite nicely -- they take up some of the same events, as seen by two different writers. I appear in Becky's book, and she appears in mine. We describe some of the same events -- not surprisingly, in somewhat different ways. (less)

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	A Red Woman was Crying 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shibai: Remembering Jane Britton's Murder 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars