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BOOKS

Books 
 

Splintered Shadows: Recovering a French Résistante

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(University of North Georgia Press, forthcoming 2026)

Splintered Shadows: Recovering a French Résistante is an unconventional adoptee-search narrative told against the backdrop of World War II. After the War, Andrée married an American serviceman, left France, and carried the story of her earlier life to her grave. Her adoptive daughter, Marilyn Moriarty, was left with only fragments-photographs, names, and unanswered questions that hinted at a past far more complicated than it appeared.

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"Moriarty has given us a book of great courage and faith by negotiating a voice for Zack Rosen."

Roanoke Times

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Praise for Moses Unchained

"Moses Unchained is less a book about the tragic things that happen to Zack Rosen than it is a book about the courageous way Rosen deals with tragedy.... While not avoiding the meanness and ugliness of his experi- ence, Moriarty allows us also to see its courage and beauty. Moses Unchained is an impressive accomplishment."

The Hollins Critic

"A moving testimony to the human need for spirituality and a significant contribution to the growing body of literature about AIDS." 

Tampa Tribune Times

EDITED BOOKS

World War II Letters of Veale F. Moriarty

by Veale F. Moriarty, edited by Marilyn F. Moriarty (2020)

Will there be WACS on the boat, he wonders? A man sitting behind a desk mispronounces his family name by wrenching it into the frame of a more familiar-sounding word. “Mortuary. Moratory. Majority.”“Moriarty. Veale F.” He pronounces the old Irish surname “vale” as did his great grandmother, Johanna Veale. “A-4” the man says and gives him a card. Veale shoulders his Valpak and makes his way up the gangplank, struggling through the shell door before he’s directed to his cabin in a neat passage way. In a room the size of his mother’s kitchen, bunks stacked three high against walls close in on him. There are eight hooks to hang gear in a room with nine bunks. Last man in, he sets his gear on the floor. The green deck linoleum, grey paneled metal walls, and the lavatory under the mirror underscore the reality of this boat trip. It’s the wrong boat for WACS. It is 1944. He is twenty-five years old, and he is going to war. Veale F. Moriarty crossed the English Channel after D-Day and fought in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. He was awarded the Iron Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. Once a week he wrote to his mother, Muno, in Jacksonville, Florida. As he traveled across Europe, he found pets and girlfriends until the day he met his future wife, the French woman Andrée Boziére, in Paris. She asked him to look after her dog. "Muno," he wrote, "Do you know how to make puppies eat?"

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List of Publications

BOOKS

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  • Splintered Shadows: Recovering a French Résistante, memoir. University of North Georgia Press. Forthcoming 2026.

  • Moses Unchained, memoir. University of Georgia Press. March 1998. AWP award for Creative Nonfiction.

  • Writing Science through Critical Thinking. Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Preliminary editions 1995, 1996; final edition June 1997.

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EDITIONS

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  • Editor, World War II Letters of Veale F. Moriarty. Veale F. Moriarty. May 2020.

  • Editor, D-Day In the Eyes of a Boy. Bernard L. Marie. March 2020.

  • Co-Editor, Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture. With William Lillyman and David Neuman. Oxford University Press, New York. November 1994. Collection of essays by architects and theorists, including Ann Bergren, Frank Gehry, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, J. Hillis Miller, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Robert A.M. Stern, Paul Zajfen and Michael Wilford.

  • “The Search for Common Ground.” Introduction to Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture. Edited by William Lillyman, Marilyn Moriarty, and David Neuman. Oxford University Press, New York. November, 1994: 3-11.

  • Editor, Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Twelve Plays for Theatre, ed. Robert Cohen. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1994: 75-148. Compiled and annotated play text.

  • Editor, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in Eight Plays for Theatre, ed. Robert Cohen. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1988: 75-150. Compiled and annotated play text.

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CREATIVE

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For readings, workshops, speaking engagements, book club visits, and other event inquiries, please contact Moriarty’s media representative at:

marilynfmoriarty@gmail.com

To request digital galleys or review copies,

please contact the author:

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mmoriarty@hollins.edu
Roanoke, VA

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