Fearless Voice of Burma
We’re happy to report that Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless Voice of Burma has been re-issued with updated material. Originally published in 1997 by Lerner, this inspiring young adult biography by New Orleans writer Whitney Stewart is available again thanks to the tireless efforts of Professor Robert Fuller, who taught Aung San Suu Kyi at Methodist English High School in Rangoon in the early 1960’s. Dr. Fuller, now a Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, was a resource for Whitney when she was writing her book.
The new edition features a preface by Dr. Sein Win, the Prime Minister of the democratic government of Burma in exile (the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma); an epilogue by Dr. Angelene Naw, biographer of both General Aung San, the father of Burma’s independence, and of Aung San Suu Kyi; and a timeline of events in Burma since 1997 by Dr. Ni Ni Swe, M.D., whose mother was a personal friend of Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother. Twenty new photographs are also included. For more information on the new edition, click here.
For more about Whitney’s interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, click here. For more about Whitney and her books (including her account of being rescued during Hurricane Katrina), check the following blog posts.
And a personal update: Whitney and her family evacuated to Shreveport, Louisiana, before Hurricane Gustav’s arrival earlier this week. They are home again now, having seen much wind and water damage in northern Louisiana en route. A fallen telephone pole missed their house by inches and they are now busy cleaning up fallen trees, “happy and grateful to be home.”
Whitney’s forthcoming children’s books are Marshall: A Nantucket Rescue (Soundprints), Mr. Lincoln’s Gift (Hildene), and Who Was Walt Disney? (Penguin).
