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Sallie Tisdale

Biography

Sallie Tisdale

Sallie Tisdale is the author of TALK DIRTY TO ME, STEPPING WESTWARD and WOMEN OF THE WAY. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James Phelan Literary Award, and was a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Distinguished Writer of the year. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, Conjunctions and Tricycle. Tisdale is a long-time member of PEN and was a judge for the National Book Award in 2010.

Sallie Tisdale

Books by Sallie Tisdale

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
by Sallie Tisdale - Memoir, Nonfiction, Self-Help

From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Sallie Tisdale leads the reader through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise and humorous hand. ADVICE FOR FUTURE CORPSES is more than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible: it is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life, as well as stories from cultures, traditions and literature around the world.

Talk Dirty to Me
by Sallie Tisdale