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Jinny Webber Book Signing
Thursday August 16, 2012

By Edhat Subscriber

Jinny Webber

Thursday August 16th at 7pm

Join Jinny Webber as she signs her new book, The Secret Player.

In The Secret Player, the protagonist Alexander Cooke, known as Sander, becomes a favorite performer of women's roles on the London stage, where only males are allowed to act. A dangerous secret: Sander was born female. She is at risk of flogging or even death if her identity is discovered. A few suspect the truth, including William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth. Adding to her risks, she and he poet John Donne fall in love. In life and onstage, Sander Cooke dares to challenge the status quo.

Jinny grew up in Glendale, California. During a 33 year career at Santa Barbara City College, Jinny taught literature and writing courses including composition, creative writing, and literature from contemporary poetry and fiction to British and American literature surveys to Shakespeare to World Literature, Homer to Dante, and mythology.

Her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, emphasized the study of mythology and religion and literature; her dissertation The Prophetic Truth of Doris Lessing: a Study of Canopus in Argos, 1986. An expanded chapter from that work which she delivered in 1997 at the Modern Language Association is published in Spiritual Explorations in the Works of Doris Lessing, Greenwood Press, 1999.

Her theatrical experience includes playing Titania in an amateur production of Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1980's, wearing a body suit and flowers, and in the 90's productions of As You Like It (Corin the Shepherd) and Taming of the Shrew (the lusty widow), somewhat more modestly dressed. For her sabbatical project in 1998 she stage-managed and served as assistant director of an all-faculty production of As You Like It at SBCC, guest- directed by Jim Edmundson of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Jinny lives in Santa Barbara, California and spends a portion of each year in Britain and traveling in Europe for research, theatre, and pleasure. She belongs to Pen International, the Modern Language Association, Romance Writers of America, and many environmental groups.

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