Shelley Emling

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Shelley Emling has been a journalist for 20 years. She was born in Missouri. Later she grew up in Dallas, Texas. She went to the University of Texas and started her journalism career at UPI.

Personal life

Shelley met her husband, Scott Norvell in Texas while working at a newspaper, The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. They married in 1991 and honeymooned in Colombia. She has three children.

Education and Career

She was previously a foreign correspondent for Cox Newspapers, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, USA Today, and the International Herald Tribune. She’s currently an editor for AOL’s Patch, and lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey. She has lived in Missouri, Texas, New Orleans, Miami, Guatemala, Atlanta, London, and New York.

Published works

Shelley is the author of two books: Your Guide to Retiring in Mexico, and most recently, The Fossil Hunter, published by Macmillan in 2009 about paleontologist Mary Anning, whom Shelley had learned of while on a holiday in England.[1] The Fossil Hunter was criticised by the New York Times for having moved away from the central narrative too often, but the reviewer nevertheless noted the ample footnotes, which put the subject's work "into the scientific and sociological context".[2] Nature, however, felt that Emling's "diligent" work was "more thorough and complete" than Tracy Chevalier's fictional account of Anning's life, Remarkable Creatures, which was released the same year – although the reviewer notes that the freedom of the fictionalised account proved to be more engaging.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kirbyson, Ron (January 30, 2010). "Female fossil hunter led to creation of paleontology". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved February 3, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Bouton, Katherine (February 1, 2010). "Tale of an Unsung Fossil Finder, in Fact and Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved February 3, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Rohn, Jennifer (October 29, 2009). "Forgotten treasure seeker". Nature 461: 1211–1213. 

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