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Liz Balmaseda
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Liz Balmaseda

Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959, Puerto Padre, Cuba) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a writer for The Palm Beach Post and a former columnist for The Miami Herald. She was awarded her first Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1993 for her writings on the plight of Haitian refugees and the Cuban-American population. She shared a second Pulitzer for breaking-news reporting in 2001, for the coverage of the federal raid to seize refugee Elián González.

Sweet Mary will be released on June 29, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Sweet Mary is now available in Hardcover
Jul 14, 2009
Sweet Mary will be released on July 14, 2009 in Hardcover
Jul 14, 2009
Sweet Mary will be released on July 14, 2009 in eBook
Jul 14, 2009
Sweet Mary is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jul 14, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Sweet Mary
Jun 06, 2009
Sweet Mary will be released on July 14, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008

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Miami Herald, November 8, 2009
...Tere Figueras Negrete is a an editor for Neighbor's section. She asked this of Pulitzer Prize winner Liz Balmaseda, formerly of and currently a columnist for The Palm Beach Post, whose new book is ``Sweet Mary'' (Atria Books, a division of Simon &...
Miami Herald, November 8, 2009
...Thomas and Sam Tanenhaus. Menendez also reads from her book at 1:30 p.m., Pavilion B, with Liz Balmaseda (``Sweet Mary'') and Leonard Pitts Jr. (``Before I Forget...
Tampa Bay Online, August 9, 2009
...'Sweet Mary' by Liz Balmaseda (Atria Books, $25) Real estate agent and single mom Mary Guevara is preparing for work when U.S. marshals show up at her door. The next thing the heroine...
Columbia Daily Tribune, July 19, 2009
...?Sweet Mary? by Liz Balmaseda (Atria Books Hardcover, 242 pages). Real estate agent and single mom Mary Guevara is preparing for work when U.S. marshals suddenly show up at her door. The next...
Knox News Sentinel, July 17, 2009
...'Sweet Mary' (Atria Books Hardcover, 242 pages, $24.99), by Liz Balmaseda: Real estate agent and single mom Mary Guevara is preparing for work when U.S. marshals suddenly show up at her door. The next thing the heroine of 'Sweet...
Stamford Advocate, July 13, 2009
...In this book cover image released by Atria books, 'Sweet Mary,' by Liz Balmaseda, is shown. 'Sweet Mary' (Atria Books Hardcover, 242 pages, $24.99), by Liz Balmaseda: Real estate agent and single mom Mary Guevara is preparing for work when U.S...
660 News, July 13, 2009
...photo. None of that matters as Mary is led away, leaving her young son screaming. Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Liz Balmaseda serves up only a brief introduction before she knocks readers in the gut with her fast-paced fictional debut, which is based...
Examiner.com, July 12, 2009
...James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner (Simon & Schuster)Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda (Simon & Schuster)www.simonandschuster.com Burn by Linda Howard (Random House) Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard...
Examiner.com, May 12, 2009
...influence of Caribbean as part of the African Diaspora in Cuba. Sweet Mary, from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Liz Balmaseda, depicts the story of a falsely accused cocaine queen and her struggle to clear her name and reclaim the broken pieces of her...
Notes on the Art of Writing, October 22, 2009
...Ana Nogales PhD (nonfiction) February 2010 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (fiction) March 2010 - Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda (fiction) April 2010 - Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo (fiction) May 2010 - More Than This by Margo Candela (fiction) June...
American Taíno, September 28, 2009
...DeAzevedo Kathy Cano-Murillo Kermit Lopez L.M. Gonzalez Lalo Delgado Laura Gallego Garcia laurasalas Lauren Castillo Lisa Alvarado Liz Balmaseda Lorena Siminovich Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorraine M. Lopez Lucha Corpi Lucia Gonzalez Luis A. Lopez Luis J....
American Taíno, September 27, 2009
...DeAzevedo Kathy Cano-Murillo Kermit Lopez L.M. Gonzalez Lalo Delgado Laura Gallego Garcia laurasalas Lauren Castillo Lisa Alvarado Liz Balmaseda Lorena Siminovich Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorraine M. Lopez Lucha Corpi Lucia Gonzalez Luis A. Lopez Luis J....
Momtrends, June 10, 2009
...I am reading the novel Sweet Mary by a good friend and former colleague at the Miami Herald , Liz Balmaseda. Liz and I were journalists together in the early 1980s, and her new book, which is both exciting and poignant, is taking me on a walk down memory...
UkPoliBlog: Composite feed, April 19, 2009
...Paris by Josefina Lopez................................... JUNE: Rogelia's House of Magic by Jamie Martinez Wood..................... JULY: Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda............................ AUGUST: Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos SEPT: Reclaiming Paris...