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Expert: James Edward Kelley - 1/30/2012


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QUESTION: Hi i have a book sign by M. Cheney call Tesla man out of time, can you tell me any thing about her ? i hear she just pass in 2010. Thank you for your time.

ANSWER: Hi, Victor.

    M. (Margaret) Cheney won the Tesla Gold Medal of the Serbian Academy of Science and the Nikola Tesla Foundation.  She wrote three other books: "Why: The Serial Killer in America" about serial killer Edmund Kemper, "Midnight at Mabel's: The Mabel Mercer Story" about the biracial cabaret singer Mabel Mercer and "Meanwhile Farm" a memoir.

    She was a journalist for the Seattle Bureau of the Associated Press and a public relations writer for the University of California.

James

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QUESTION: Thank you . Did she sign alot of books, and do you know who Louis Helmuth is ?

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Hi, Victor.

As signed books by any author are not easily come by, I highly doubt that Cheney signed many books.  If I remember correctly, yours was signed so it may actually be quite valuable, especially if it is a first edition.  I don't know who Louis Helmuth is, unfortunately.  Sorry about that.

James

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I am willing to answer any questions about books except those regarding Fantasy, Self-Help and Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian literature. I no longer evaluate the financial worth of books as it is impossible to evaluate them in good faith without physically seeing the book itself. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.

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I am an author. I won the Henry Fonda Young Playwright's Award for the state of Connecticut for the first play I ever wrote. I have been commissioned to write two plays for Brown University's Rites & Reason Theatre. I have a short story published in an on-line literary magazine called "Slurve". I am often published in the Mensa Bulletin. Former Poet Laureate of Portugal, Jose Brites, has shown interest in publishing a collection of my poetry. At the age of 21, I was invited to speak at University of Nebraska at Omaha's International Third World Studies & Review Conference. I was the youngest speaker there. Not even having earned my Bachelor's Degree at the time, I was in the company of PhD.'s and experts from around the globe.

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