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Sel Erder Yackley

Born: 1939 in Istanbul, Turkey
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Sel lived in LaSalle county for 27 years and served on the boards of Illinois Valley Community College as well as the Ottawa Elementary School Board. Ten years after her husband’s suicide, she returned to Chicago to work in the travel business and became involved in mental health issues.

Biography: Sel Erder Yackley is an award-winning journalist who was born and reared in Turkey.Sel was 16 when she came from Ankara Koleji to Phoenix, Arizona as an AFS exchange student. After receiving her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, she worked for United Press International, where she met Frank, and for the Chicago Tribune. During the 1970s, while raising three children, Sel became active in local politics as well as civic and charitable organizations in central Illinois. On the boards of international groups, Sel continues to write, organize tours to Turkey, and lecture at support groups.


Awards:
  • Mate E. Palmer Communications Award from the Illinois Press Women's Association for ''Never Regret the Pain'', 2007 Illinois State Sesquicentennial Award in Magazine Category for ''The Town George Pullman Built'' in the ''Chicago Tribune Magazine'', 1968

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: selyackley@sbcglobal.net
Website: http://www.selyackley.com/
Sel Erder Yackley on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=sel++erder+yackley


Selected Titles

Never regret the pain :
ISBN: 9780976919353 OCLC: 65644524

Helm Pub., Rockford, IL : ©2006.

 

 

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