Sands Hall is the author of the novel Catching Heaven, a WILLA Award Finalist for Best Contemporary Fiction, and a Random House Reader's Circle selection; and of a book of writing essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer's Craft. She she leads workshops and lectures for such conferences as the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and is professor emeritus, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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In Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology, Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time in the Church, the 1980s, includes the secretive illness and death of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and the ascensio... SEE MORE