Ann Ferrar
Ann Ferrar
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BiographyAnn Ferrar is a freelance journalist and award-winning author. Her body of work includes narrative non-fiction, consumer health feature writing, topical, entertainment and general-interest reporting, and creative writing on American motorcycling, with emphasis on women's motorcycling history. Over the course of her career, she has covered health and medicine, lifestyles, women’s issues, celebrities and human interest. She is juggling other diverse projects as well. These include works on Italian-American women, and on the late Bessie Stringfield, an African American motorcycling pioneer in the pre-Civil Rights era. Her freelance features have been published in The New York Times, Newsday, Ladies' Home Journal, Health Monitor Network, Mamm: Women, Cancer and Community, Redbook, InTouch: The Good Health Guide to Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Weight Watchers Magazine, American Motorcyclist and others. Her online writing can be seen at the websites of Breastcancer.org, GE Healthcare's Healthymagination.com, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the American Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Ferrar has interviewed notable figures in medicine, politics, entertainment, sports, business and other professions, from Hillary Clinton to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. As a specialist in writing and reporting about consumer health, Ferrar is highly adept at researching and translating complex medical information into concise, accurate and lively prose for lay and professional readers. As an interviewer and narrative storyteller, she has brought many human-interest and celebrity profiles to life, writing in the third person and first-person "as told to" forms. She has written magazine cover features, web content, documentary scripts, newsletters, interactive medical education materials, syndicated newspaper columns and other literature in various media. She is also an experienced editor. (Please see C.V. for details.) Her book of narrative non-fiction, Hear Me Roar: Women, Motorcycles and the Rapture of the Road, broke new ground in chronicling a little-known facet of women's progression in the twentieth century. The seminal work on the topic, the book traces the history of women motorcycle riders, racers, extreme adventurers and activists, with a historical perspective on American women and personal mobility. The first edition was published by Crown and the second by Whitehorse Press. Ferrar has been recognized with awards from the American Motorcyclist Association for Hear Me Roar and from non-profit agencies for her writing in public health education. The author has provided expert on-camera commentary for the PBS Television documentaries American Biker and Glory Road: The Legacy of the African American Motorcyclist. Ferrar has appeared in CNN's All About Women and in productions for The History Channel and The Learning Channel. She has lectured and given seminars and readings at libraries, colleges, universities and other venues. A native New Yorker, Ferrar lives in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region, in the free and great land of E pluribus unum. All contents of this website © 1996, 2000, 2010, Ann Ferrar. All rights reserved. |
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