Taaffe

Sonya Taaffe is a young woman with an immensely bright future.

oldcharliebrown's Journal oldcharliebrown 2004

The men Marshall chose came from varied backgrounds, Mr. Taaffe observes, but all met Marshall's strict criteria: "integrity, initiative, a sense of duty, a can-do attitude, aggressiveness, and drive."

Casting the Plan For Victory 2012

I exchanged emails with Sonya Taaffe (sovay) regarding programming at this years ReaderCon.

"Only a thimble," said Alice sadly. sovay 2010

And tomorrow, I'll begin work on #40, which will include new fiction by me and Sonya Taaffe.

"Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove." sovay 2009

Even a substantial palette-cleanser offered between trios - the Romance for Violin and Piano by contemporary American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - tapped into the same tonally lush world, with guest violinist Erin Keefe spinning a silvery sound and finding quietly eloquent ways into the piece's Coplandesque open chords and searching melodic lines.

A superlative performance by the Schumann Trio 2011

As Mr. Taaffe shows us, the war's great Allied victories began with a quiet man, sitting quietly behind a desk, placing the right leaders on the right battlefields.

Casting the Plan For Victory 2012

In the Pacific, Mr. Taaffe depicts a war equally long on hardships.

Casting the Plan For Victory 2012

Instead, Mr. Taaffe zeroes in on Marshall's role in the placement of every major Army ground commander.

Casting the Plan For Victory 2012

In Eisenhower, Marshall found a protégé whose political gifts, while slow to develop, far exceeded his own, and Mr. Taaffe skillfully illuminates the paternal interest that Marshall took in his European Theater commander, whose confidence grew with each successful landing.

Casting the Plan For Victory 2012

Sonya Taaffe: "On the Blindside" (Flytrap, May 2005)

Free Fiction for 4/10/10 2010