Talk:Delia Owens
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citation information
edit´She and her then-husband, Mark Owens, were students in biology at the University of Georgia.´-- There is no note with this sentence. The note for the following sentence does not mention Owens at all. A later note leads to a ´New Yorker´article that says that ¨ Mark and Delia Owens ...[were] two graduate students in biology at the University of Georgia, ¨
New source
editThis page can be updated with the information here: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-mark-owens-zambia-murder GordonGlottal (talk) 15:40, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Criticism
editThe article currently contains the passage: The family were also accused of having "archaic ideas about Africans", with one critic describing their views as "Nice continent. Pity about the Africans."[1][2] This to me reads as vague and potentially undue: neither the "archaic ideas" accuser nor the "one critic" are named. In fact the former quote comes from Jeffrey Goldberg himself while the latter is from someone with a professional and personal feud with the Owenses whose parents were killed by suspected poachers.[3] There is certainly controversy regarding the Owenses, and a biography shouldn't ignore that, but I also don't think that all criticism should be included: the statements we do include should be attributed, not presented as vague anonymous complaints. --Animalparty! (talk) 06:24, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
References
- ^ Miller, Laura (2019-07-30). "The Dark History of the Year's Bestselling Debut Novelist". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
- ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2010-05-03). "Racism on Mark and Delia Owens's Website". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
- ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (March 29, 2010). "The Hunted". The New Yorker.
Wiki Education assignment: Honors English 250H VL1
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