Bøger af Dean Rea

After completing a journalism degree at the University of Kansas and serving three years in the Air Force, Andrew "Andy" Jones tests his long-time interest in community journalism rather than join "The Kansas City Star," a daily newspaper where his father is an editor. The 24-year-old accepts a job as the editor of a weekly newspaper in Appleton, Oregon, a town of 8,000 people in the Willamette Valley during the early 1950s when journalists wrote stories on typewriters and newspapers were printed on letterpresses. A one-year trial run coincides with his long-time girlfriend's plan to complete her law degree at Harvard and to join her father's law firm in Kansas City. Jane Johnston, a teasing redhead, complicates his decision-making as they work together at "The Appleton News." Andy also must deal with the advances of Mary Martin, a wealthy grass seed farmer, who lost her husband in a farm accident and appears to be looking for a replacement. As the one-year trial period ends, several incidents help Andy decide whether to remain in Appleton or to return to Kansas City and to re-establish the personal relationship with his life-long girlfriend.

Confessions of a Professor is a memoir that traces Dean Rea's 30-year career teaching journalism at the University of Montana, Biola University and the University of Oregon. He sandwiched his classroom experience around a weekly and daily newspaper career.

The engine of a light airplane sputters overhead and stops as Annie Johnston, 20, casts a fishing line on the North Fork a day before she begins her junior year at the University of Oregon. The life of this red-headed, freckled, strong-willed woman will change in ways she never suspects as she jogs upriver in search of the plane and discovers a man who was taking a joy ride the day before his wedding. As a person reared in a weekly newspaper office and dedicated to becoming an international freelance writer and photographer, Annie has guarded against romantic entanglements. That is until she meets Matt Curtiss, the pilot of the downed plane, and protects him from the cold by sleeping alongside him while awaiting rescue. Despite Annie's otherwise continued "hands-off" relationship with Matt, she can hardly avoid his insistence on helping her achieve a dream of learning to fly. Liz Warner, Annie's university roommate who may appear unschooled in the world outside her Eastern Oregon ranch life, not only takes a liking to this young pilot but also needs a bit of coaching to survive in the classroom. Meanwhile, Matt has some explaining to do to his fiancée Jennifer Jenkins after their wedding is postponed because of the accident on the North Fork.