Tireless Peace Corps community champion John Coyne always has his finger on the pulse of the publishing world when it comes to Peace Corps writers. Since 1989 he and fellow returned Peace Corps volunteer Marian Haley Beil (both Ethiopia 62-64) have been furthering the Third Goal by fostering Peace Corps writing talent: first with the print newsletter RPCV Writers & Readers and since 1994 with the website PeaceCorpsWriters.org. Somehow John also finds time to maintain a lively blog that "comments on Peace Corps writers, Ethiopia, happenings, current affairs, golf, other people's blogs, etc. etc."
Stanley Meisler, an early evaluator at the Peace Corps who has had a long and distinguished career in journalism, before and after his Peace Corps years, has signed a contract with Beacon Press to write a history of the first 50 years of the agency. This is a major development in the telling the story of the Peace Corps, a history that will be written by a talented writer who knows the agency from the inside and from the early days, and a journalist who has observed PCVs at work around the world.
Meisler was with the Los Angeles Times as a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for thirty yers, living and working in Nairobi, Mexico City, Madrid, Toronto, Paris, Barcelona, the United Nations and Washington. He still contributes articles to the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He is the author of the biography Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War and United Nations: The First Fifty Years. Today he writes a News Commentary for his website, www.stanleymeisler.com.
Peace Corps celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2011.
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