{"id":2014,"date":"2015-09-16T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2015-09-16T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T21:09:34","slug":"mattingly-book-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/09\/16\/mattingly-book-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Coauthored by Stacy Mattingly Made into Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/Captive-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/Captive-Cover-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Captive Cover\" width=\"242\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/Captive-Cover-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/Captive-Cover-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/Captive-Cover.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>In 2005, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/02\/26\/stacy-mattingly-works-with-iwp-and-caracas-sarajevo-colleagues-to-help-launch-narrative-witness\/\">Stacy Mattingly<\/a> (Fiction \u201911) coauthored <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span><i>UNLIKELY ANGEL: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span> with Ashley Smith. This Friday, September 18, Paramount Pictures will release a feature film based on the book! \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span><i>CAPTIVE<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span> stars David Oyelowo (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span><i>SELMA<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>) and Kate Mara (\u201cHouse of Cards\u201d). \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>HarperCollins has re-released <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062439208\/captive\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>the book<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span> under the film title.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer below!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IKJFYegRJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hearty congratulations, Stacy! \u00a0We&#8217;re excited for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacymattingly.com\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>Stacy Mattingly<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>\u00a0is a U.S. writer and the founder of the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarajevoww.com\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>Sarajevo Writers\u2019 Workshop<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span>, a bilingual group of poets and prose writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has led the workshop since 2012. Stacy holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University, where she was a Marcia Trimble Fellow, a Leslie Epstein Global Fellow, and recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award. She has taught creative writing at Boston University, is slated to teach for Boston\u2019s Grub Street, and helped lead the first Narrative Witness exchange (Caracas-Sarajevo) for the University of Iowa\u2019s International Writing Program. Stacy is currently writer-in-residence at the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has just completed a first novel, set in the Balkans.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, Stacy Mattingly (Fiction \u201911) coauthored UNLIKELY ANGEL: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero with Ashley Smith. This Friday, September 18, Paramount Pictures will release a feature film based on the book! \u00a0CAPTIVE stars David Oyelowo (SELMA) and Kate Mara (\u201cHouse of Cards\u201d). \u00a0HarperCollins has re-released the book under the film title. 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