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Biography

Donan Berg landed twice in the winner's circle in the 5th Annual Dixie Kane Memorial Contest sponsored by the Southern Louisiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. He was featured in the Iowa City, IA, Press-Citizen in a front page story November 8, 2010, as someone you'd want to know. Specifics of the October, 2010, Dixie Kane competition included, in the inspirational romance category, his novel entitled "Rosemary's Awakening" earned an honorable mention. The story is a fictional account of a courageous young Iowa woman's battle after a horse-riding accident confines her to a wheelchair. In the novel with romantic elements category, he was awarded an honorable mention for his novel entitled "Alexa." Living in Chicago, a single mom fights to restore her shattered life after an assault in an escalating, dramatic tale of murder, mystery, and rumored gold linked to her grandmother's cook book recipe sought by Iowa town neighbors after Alexa inherits her grandmother's farm. In February 2010 a Writers' Digest judge wrote this about his novel, A Body To Bones, "Donan Berg writes a nice, clear, consistently readable prose, and he manages to create a winning character in Sarah Hamilton." Short stories appear frequently at www.authorsden.com and have ranked as most popular. A native of Ireland, traveling to America's Heartland as a child and still residing there after earning a bachelor of arts in journalism and a juris doctor in law at the University of Minnesota. He's extensively traveled the United States missing Alaska and the three Northeastern states, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. He's been a national photography winner and as his latest murder mystery indicates in an author's note: he'll never volunteer that he owns, at last count, five pairs of ballroom dancing shoes.

Inspiration

Oriental saying, fall down seven times, stand up eight.