25 Women Who Survived Cancer: Notable Women Share Inspiring Stories of Hope

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25 Women Who Survived Cancer is an inspiring book of hard-won truths about what it means to survive cancer. In more than 20 personal essays, notable women such as Robin Roberts, Joan Lunden, Fran Drescher, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Delinsky, Shonda Schilling, Brbara Padilla, Sylvia McNair, and Marissa Jaret Winokur write with moving candor as they describe facing cancer and not letting it define their lives or conquer their spirit. They write about receiving their diagnosis, learning how to cope, dealing with body image and sexuality, and discovering what having cancer has taught them. This collection includes the experiences of women who have survived breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and malignant melanoma. 25 Women Who Survived Cancer is an uplifting book of hope for anyone who has survived or is being treated for cancer. All royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research and prevention.

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Mark Evan Chimsky is the head of Mark Chimsky Editorial Services Unlimited, an editorial consulting business based in Portland, Maine. In his publishing career he has been editor-in-chief at Sellers Publishing, executive editor and editorial director of Harper San Francisco, and head of the paperback divisions at both Little, Brown and Macmillan. He has edited a number of best-selling books, including Johnny Cash's memoir, Cash, and he has worked with such notable authors as Arthur Hertzberg, Melody Beattie, Beryl Bender Birch, and Robert Coles. He conceived of the long-running series The Best American Erotica, compiled by Susie Bright, and he was the first editor to reissue the works of Dawn Powell. Mark's original anthologies include Congratulations, Graduate! and 65 Things to Do When You Retire, which the Wall Street Journal called"[one of] the year's best guides to later life." His editorial achievements have been noted in Vanity Fair, the Nation, and Publishers Weekly. Mark has also taught at New York University's Center for Publishing and was the director of the book section of their Summer Publishing Institute. He currently teaches at Emerson College in Boston. In addition, he is an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have appeared in JAMA, Wild Violet, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, and Mississippi Review.