Behind-the-Book: Fission and My Nuclear Family https://leslierschoverphd147820.substack.com/p/nuclear-fiction-video?r=btzfh

My Father's Radio and Truman's Announcement of the Bombing of Hiroshima Radio Being Repaired https://leslierschoverphd147820.substack.com/p/nuclear-fiction-newsletter-issue-793?r=btzfh

African American History and Contributions at Oak Ridge Hutment Interior https://leslierschoverphd147820.substack.com/p/nuclear-fiction-newsletter-21?r=btzfh

Scenes from Oak Ridge and Fission: WWII and Now https://leslierschoverphd147820.substack.com/p/nuclear-fiction-newsletter-19?r=btzfh

Two Daughters of Fission Talk in Oak Ridge Book Cover for Coryell Interviews On October 16, my friend Julie Coryell and I presented a talk for the Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association about our parents’ wartime experiences during the Manhattan Project and how we memorialized them—Julie editing a book of interviews with her father, the eminent chemist Charles D. Coryell, and me writing a novel based loosely on my parents’ stories. Charles Coryell was my father’s gro

An Uncanny Oak Ridge Legend Since it is Halloween week, my first post based on my very recent trip to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, setting of my Manhattan Project novel Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak will focus on the uncanny legend of John Hendrix (1865-1915), who slept on the icy ground for forty days and nights and then recounted visions predicting that Black Oak Ridge (the site of the Secret City of Oak Ridge) would be filled with construction and factories that would hel

My Favorite Manhattan Project Novels As I wrote my novel, Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak , I began to search for other novels set...

The Guilt Trope in Manhattan Project Novels Guilty Scientist The movie  Oppenheimer,  as well as almost every novel written about the...

Anatomy of a Scene: Fleshing Out the Skeleton of a Story The Piano Store One of my mother’s Oak Ridge stories was, as best I can recall,...

My Family in Summer, 1943 A Video Time Machine: Two Sisters, Two Family Eras                 Why do some siblings turn out to be so...

My Mother's Music                  As I began to write my novel Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak , based in part on my parents’...

Radiation safety was a relatively new field during the Manhattan Project when my father was a twenty-three year old electronics...

I want to introduce myself to strangers and reintroduce myself to friends as an author of fiction. After a long career as a clinical...