Chamberlin, Ann

Ann Chamberlin believes that the purpose of storytelling - as of all true art as well as all true religion - is to support positions in exact opposition to the views prevailing in a culture's powerhouses, whatever those views happen to be. Nowhere is this more crucial than in the retelling of history. As Milan Kundera tells us, people in the powerhouses are not so interested in who will control the future as in who controls the airbrushes in the labs where the past's photos are retouched. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Ann Chamberlin also spent big blocks of time as a child in Europe where...