the debut novel from BOBBIE CALHOUN
A forty year rivalry, spanning countless battlefields…
Folio opens on the battlefields of WWII, where a dangerous rivalry unfolds between two ambitious war photographers. American Terry Tusley refuses to gloss over the violence. His British rival, Cameron Plumb, creates elaborate, visual illusions of drama at the front in service to apropaganda machine. Complicating matters is Terry's wife Francine, an undercover operative for the Allies who has more passion for espionage than motherhood. Left behind to raise two young brothers alone, their daughter Katie Tusley is the unsuspecting psychological casualty of events beyond her control.
Folio is an exciting, challenging journey that weaves historical fiction with deep character development and intricate storytelling.
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PRAISE FOR FOLIO
“An epic tale of passion, manipulation, and obsession.”
—WHITNEY OTTO, New York Times bestselling author
MEET THE AUTHOR
Novelist • Essayist • Playwright • Poet
Bobbie Calhoun is a novelist, produced playwright, published essayist, and poet based in Portland, Oregon. Her debut novel, Folio — an epic tale of war photography, rivalry, and the cost of ambition — was praised by New York Times bestselling author Whitney Otto as "an epic tale of passion, manipulation, and obsession."
Bobbie is a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the Authors Guild. She is currently at work on her next novel.
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For further reading, please consider the following works referenced by the author during the development of Folio.
Acheson, Dean. The Korean War.New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971.
Ayed, Nahlah. The War We Won Apart. Canada: Penguin Random House, 2024.
Addario, Lynsey.It’s What I Do. New York: Penguin Press, 2015.
Ang, Tom. Photography: The Definitive Visual History. New York: DK Publishing, 2014.
Bergman, Ronen. Rise and Kill First. New York: Penguin Random House, 2018.
Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Random House, Inc., 1999.
Chapnick, Howard. Truth Needs No Ally. Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Collins, Douglas. The Story of Kodak. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1990.
Crickmore, Paul F. Lockheed Blackbird. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2016.
Darman, Peter. Deception Tactics of World War II. New York: Metro Books, 2017.
Fischer, Julene. The Vietnam Experience—Images of War, Combat Photographer. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Publishing Company, 1986.
Gustavson, Todd. Camera. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2009.
Jones, Berard E. Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Arno Press, Inc., 1974.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Leekley, Sheryle and John. Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978.
Sebba, Anna. Les Parisiennes. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Taft, Robert. Photography and the American Scene. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1938.
The Canadians at War, Volumes 1 and 2. Reader’s Digest Association, 1969.
The Vietnam Wars 50 Years Ago. New York: Life Books Time Home Entertainment, 2014.
WWII. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1989.
Ward, Geoffrey C. and Burns, Ken. The Vietnam War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House, 2017.
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