Ann Fessler is a professor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design, where she has taught since 1993. Her critically acclaimed The Girls Who Went Away was chosen as one of the top five nonfiction books of 2006 by the National Book Critics Circle and was awarded the Ballard Book Prize.
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In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the ... SEE MORE