If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians

Ellis, Neenah

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9781565117198: If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians

ISBN 10: 1565117190 ISBN 13: 9781565117198

Publisher: HighBridge Audio, 2002

If I Live to Be 100 is based on One Hundred Years of Stories, a series of profiles of American centenarians, which Ellis produced and which aired in 2000 on NPR's Morning Edition. There are now more 100-year-olds alive than at any other time in history, and longevity studies are finding many of them are active, healthy and engaged with the world around them. Neenah Ellis set out to meet these people and to hear what insights, memories, wisdom and just plain common sense tips they have to offer. What she's found will surprise you. The original radio profiles will be intercut with Ellis's reading of her book. If I Live to be 100 is not simply a transcript of the radio series, but about how the experience of meeting and talking with these amazing centenarians affected the author.

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About the Author:

NEENAH ELLIS is an independent producer and writer, and the winner of three prestigious Peabody awards for Excellence in broadcasting. Ms. Ellis has spent 25 years making documentaries on a variety of subjects in the United States and abroad. She is a graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with a degree in journalism.

From AudioFile:

Neenah Ellis originally interviewed centenarians for a series of NPR reports. Among the people she found still active at age 100 are a professor, a black lesbian, a preacher, and a married couple. Their stories are always fascinating, and the last disc contains the original NPR segments featuring the centenarians' own voices. Ellis's quest, she explains, was a personal one. She has long wondered what her life would be like at age 100. My main quibble is that the interviews are grouped at the end, when they might have been more powerful at the start or interspersed throughout the book. I'd recommend starting with Disc 5, but this is still a memorable essay on aging. J.A.S � AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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