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history: Alison Owings is a journalist and writer, based in Northern California. She is the author of Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (Rutgers University Press, 1993), Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray (University of California Press, 2004), and most recently Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2011). Owings grew up in Chatham and East Orange, New Jersey, and in Strafford, Pennsylvania. She graduated from American University in Washington, DC, in 1966 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and during her studies, she spent a year at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Following college, she worked in television news, primarily with the CBS network, where she worked as a writer for television anchors such as Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Ed Bradley, and Charles Kuralt, among others. Prior to working for CBS News, she worked on television news and documentaries for the ABC network, as well as local network affiliates WRC-TV in Washington, DC and WNBC-TV in New York, and has since done free-lance work for stations in the Bay Area in California. The move from television news writer to the author of books began with Frauen, which was inspired during a visit to Spain in the 1980s, where, as she recounts in that book, she became acquainted with a neighbor in the town she was living in, who was an older German woman. During frequent conversations with her, the woman began to gradually talk about her past and about life in Germany during the Third Reich, a topic that intrigued Owings and which she wished to hear more about from the perspectives of other German women—Jewish and non-Jewish—who had experienced that period. Upon returning to her home in Northern California, she began investigating the possibility of writing a book based on oral history interviews with a variety of German women who were eyewitnesses to the Third Reich, and she sought the advice of historian Gordon Craig from Stanford University, who e…
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record resource structure: The Alison Owings papers are arranged in four series: I. Correspondence, II. Editorial and publication, III. Interview transcripts, IV. Photographs.
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scope and content: The Alison Owings collection consists of correspondence, transcripts, audio recordings, clippings, reviews, and other research and editorial materials created and/or collected by Alison Owings, during the research, writing, and publication of her book"Frauen: Women in the Third Reic" (Rutgers University Press, 1993). Collection includes transcripts of interviews and interview notes; audio recordings; correspondence with interviewees, scholars, and others who were involved with or advised on the research; and correspondence, reviews, and other material related to the publication of the book.
title: Alison Owings papers