The Long Run - Sullivan, Joan

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Résumé :
On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man's land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson went over the top on that fateful day--and survived. Almost unbelievably, just four years later, Robertson would become the first born and bred Newfoundlander to compete in the Olympics. With her engaging journalistic style, Joan Sullivan--author of the award-winning In the Field--returns to tell the story of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, a lost Olympiad, and one man's extraordinary journey through the battlefield and into history.

Biographie:
J. M. Sullivan is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Telegram, This Magazine, and on CBC Radio. She also works in theatre as a director, actor and playwright and is a co-founder of the St. John's theatre company The Open Actor's Studio. She lives in St. John's with her husband, the actor/writer Bryan Hennessey, and daughter, Marianne.