Mary Ann Hogan
The late Mary Ann Hogan was an award-winning journalist and teacher whose credits included The New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and Mother Jones magazine. She specialized in personal essays, and for six years was syndicated by the Los Angeles Times. She lectured nationally on writing through the American Press Institute and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and was a newsroom writing coach at the South Florida Sun Sentinel and for the Freedom Forum’s Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity in Journalism. She taught writing at San Francisco State University, Palm Beach State College, and Florida Atlantic University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction. Returning to her childhood home in Mill Valley before she died in 2019 of lymphoma, she wrote a community column for the Marin Independent Journal.
Circle Way
A Daughter’s Memoir, a Writer’s Journey Home
In this visually rich, multigenerational lyric essay, journalist Mary Ann Hogan reflects on a life of letters and her relationship to her late father, Bill Hogan, well-known literary editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, whom John Steinbeck once dubbed “an old and valued friend.” Circle Way is a bittersweet memoir of a father, daughter, and a prominent California family. Written in an evocative, expressionistic style, this work of creative nonfiction flutters somewhere between journalism and poetry.
Press, Awards, and More
Wonderwell to Publish Memoir from Late Award-Winning Journalist Mary Ann Hogan
It’s our pleasure to announce we’re publishing a new memoir, Circle Way, by the late award-winning journalist Mary Ann Hogan. The book will be in stores on February 15, 2022.
