Connie Schultz Books In Order

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Connie Schultz is an American journalist, writer, and educator.

She was born on July 21, 1957. Her mother was Alvina Jane and her father Charles Craig Schultz. She has three siblings and is the oldest. She graduated from high school in 1974 and then graduated from Kent State University in 1979 with a B.A. in journalism and political science.

Having written for many years for different publications, Connie worked freelance as a writer from 1978 to 1993 before joining on at Cleveland’s daily paper The Plain Dealer as a columnist from 1993 to 2011. During that time, Connie had the honor of receiving the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Connie not only writes but is a journalism professor and taught for years at Kent State University before moving on to teach at Denison University.

She is married to Sherrod Brown, who is a U.S. Senator from Ohio. She took leave from journalism for her husband’s Senate campaign in 2006 for his election and then came back in 2007, resigning four years later and noting that she could not write for the paper that covers her husband’s Senate race daily and maintain her independence both ‘professionally and personally’.

Upon leaving, Connie took on a column for Parade that was called “Views”. She contributed as well to The Huffington Post, an online political blog. She wrote a weekly print column for years that was syndicated through Creators Syndicate, wrote for USA Today as an opinion columnist, and appeared on different cable news programs such as C-SPAN.

Her first book to be published was Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths. It was published in 2006 and was a collection of previously published columns. She would come out with a memoir for her second book titled …and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man, which consisted of a journal of all the experiences that she had had on the campaign trail in 2007.

A fiction book was inevitable and in 2020 her third book but first fictional novel The Daughters of Erietown was released. Set in northeastern Ohio, it follows along with three different generations of women and their lives. She also wrote a children’s book called Lola and the Troll which was released in 2024.

She was the recipient of the 2004 Batten Medal and in 2005 received the Scripps Howard Award and the National Headliners Award in addition to the Pulitzer Prize. She was also given an honorary doctor of letters degree in 2014 from Otterbein University. She also gave a keynote address with her husband at the undergraduate commencement.

Connie had been previously married to a law professor at the same school (Cleveland State Law) where she was a student. The union concluded with divorce and she would later leave school without a degree. In 2004 she married Sherrod Brown and they each brought together two children into the marriage. The author also has several grandchildren. She lives with her husband in Cleveland and they share their home with their two dogs, Franklin and Walter.

Connie has also been a marketing and theatrical coordinator for the 1997 movie Snowriders II and an ASL interpreter for the 2008 television movie Sweet Nothing in my Ear.

Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths is a 2006 book by Connie Schultz that takes the best of her columns and her stories and puts them all together in one handy place. If you love the fun of columns and want them all at once instead of one at a time from the paper, this book brings many fresh takes on everything from family to love to social issues, politics, and more.

Connie’s distinctive voice and common sense gives readers a wonderful voice of reason that will get you thinking more deeply than ever before about the types of lives that we are living. Connie writes that you might be able to see yourself or someone that you know in these stories, as we can all relate to ways that life happens to unfold.

Here Connie shares her own observations and takes over people’s hearts with personal thoughts offered on all types of topics. These include discovering love in middle age to why her father had a lunch pail to being a single mother, who gets tips we leave, why women don’t vote, gay marriage, war, and more.

Connie also shares with the reader the advice her mother gave her about men, where she says that you shouldn’t marry him until you are witness to how he treats the waitress. She also introduces the reader to many different people who live in our world and contemplates how one person is able to make a difference.

Now Connie has all of her commentary in a volume for the reader that gives us the very best of some of her writing and will make you laugh as much as it will lift your spirits. Check out Life Happens and see what you think!

The Daughters of Erietown is a New York Times best seller and the debut fictional work from Connie Schultz. The sacrifices that people make for family, the secrets that we keep, and our hidden desires all come into play in this book.

J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Saints for All Occasions, called this a ‘moving’ and ‘unforgettable’ story that is about how one generation’s mistakes get repeated or repaired by the next. The Washington Post and the New York Post both named this novel one of the best books of the year!

The year is 1957, and the location is Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie is the main character and she is very bright. Of all the students in her class, she has some of the top grades. She dreams of going to nursing school and also tying the knot with Brick McGinty.

Brick is a basketball star and his skills might just give him a shot at getting away from his terrible home life as well as be the first person in his family to go to college. When Ellie finds out that she’s pregnant, everything shifts. Ellie and Brick revise their plans and want to start a family.

Then they get a knock at the front door that could turn their lives upside down for good. Follow along with these women’s lives and get to the bottom of what happens by reading The Daughters of Erietown!