Larken
Bradley has won seven national awards for obit writing.
Her obituary of 101-year-old rancher Boyd Stewart,
won second place in the National Newspaper Association’s
2005 Better Newspapers Contest: http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/apr22_04/stewart_obit.html
Larken’s
essay about her experiences attending the Fifth Great
Obituary Writers’ International Conference in
little Las Vegas, New Mexico in 2003: http://www.obitpage.com/docs/revival.html
The
Readership Institute at Northwestern University’s
journalism department features two of Larken’s
published obituaries as examples of lively, warts-and-all
obituary writing:
http://readership.org/content/editorial/topic_rpts/obit_gallery.htm
Larken
as featured in The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday
Magazine, July 17, 2005: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/17/CMGL7CDNS41.DTL
Stories
of West Marin, by
Larken Bradley, with photographs by Christian Bramswig
(Elephant Mountain Press, May 2005): http://www.amazon.com/Stories-West-Marin-Larken-Bradley/dp/0976019221/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=
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