The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
By Terry Ryan; Suze Orman (Foreword by)
(Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 9780743273930, 352pp.)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Compact Disc (August 30, 2005), Mass Market Paperback (August 30, 2005), Paperback (April 2, 2002), Prebound (April 2002), Hardcover (April 4, 2001), Audio Cassette - Abridged (April 2001), Compact Disc - Abridged (April 1, 2001)
Categories: Literary, Parental Memoirs, Women
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated ideas about women, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for innovation, all the while raising her six sons and four daughters with the belief that miracles are an everyday occurrence. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Evelyn Ryan's story is told by her daughter Terry with an infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit and sense of humor can triumph over adversity every time.
Suze Orman is the author of three consecutive New York Times bestsellers, The Road to Wealth, The Courage to Be Rich, and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, and the national bestseller You've Earned It, Don't Lose It. She is the personal finance editor on CNBC and the host of The Suze Orman Show, a national CNBC-TV show that airs every weekend. She is also a contributing editor to O The Oprah Magazine. Suze wrote, coproduced, and hosted three PBS pledge shows based on her bestselling books, which are among the most successful fundraisers in the history of public television. A new PBS special based on The Laws of Money, the Lessons of Life premieres in 2003.
Suze has also been called a "one-woman financial-advice powerhouse" by USA Today. In 1999, she was named by Smart Money magazine to its list of the top thirty powerbrokers in the United States. Suze was recently selected as one of five distinguished recipients of the prestigious 2002 TJFR Group Business News Luminaries Award, which honors lifetime achievement in business journalism. In 2003, she was inducted into the Books for a Better Life Awards' Hall of Fame in recognition of her ongoing contributions to self-improvement. She was also profiled in Worth magazine's 100th issue as among those "who have revolutionized the way America thinks about money." Suze's popular web site, SuzeOrman.com, features, among other valuable financial information, her monthly e-newsletter.
"Nabs first prize in the memoir genre."
-- People (Book of the Week)
"A good-natured memoir as compelling as a commercial jingle."
-- O, The Oprah Magazine
"This plucky middle American chronicle, starring an unsinkable, relentlessly resourceful mother and her Madison Avenue-style magic, succeeds on many levels -- as a tale of family spirit triumphing over penury, as a history of mid-century American consumerism, and as a memoir about a woman who was both ahead of her time and unable to escape it."
-- The New Yorker
"A good-natured memoir as compelling as a commercial jingle."
-- O, The Oprah Magazine
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