Blog - Hannelore Dean

Women Working: Brooklyn’s Can-Do Yard (Part 2)

Posted by Hannelore Dean on Feb 14, 2018 in Research | 0 comments

Women working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in World War II did all the jobs men had done.

No Irish Need Apply—but Thank God They Did

Posted by Hannelore Dean on Jan 31, 2018 in Research | 0 comments

Anti-Irish prejudice in America: how it affected my characters, and my family.

Brooklyn’s Can-Do Yard (Part 1)

Posted by Hannelore Dean on Jan 24, 2018 in Research | 0 comments

My characters are not me, but they live in me. Two of them worked at the Brooklyn Navy yard before and during World War II. They urged me to go take a tour. I did.

Review: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei

Posted by Hannelore Dean on Nov 22, 2017 in Movies and Shows | 0 comments

Sixty-five million men, women, and children have been forced from their homelands by war, famine, and persecution. Ai Weiwei’s new documentary portrays them with compassion and respect.

A Novel in Progress

Posted by Hannelore Dean on Oct 7, 2017 in Process and Progress | 4 comments

A novel, like a baby, grows slowly and in the dark.