Carol DeChant's articles have appeared in the Miami Herald and in Chicago's Tribune, Sun-Times, and Reader. She is also a frequent contributor to HuffingtonPost.com.Her new book is "Great American Catholic Eulogies." The audio version recently won Best Audiobook of the Year at the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Ceremony, (Independent Book Publishers Assn). The book offers a spectrum of American Catholic history through the lives of men and women of every era since the Revolution. Those memorialized made significant contributions in social, public, church or military service, or through art, music, literature, media, and sports. The book reintroduces these notable people to readers who may have forgotten--or never known--the extent of how Catholics have left their mark on America. Her article on How to Write a Eulogy is at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-dechant/your-gift-of-a-eulog_b_834660.htmlAs founder of DeChant-Hughes & Associates, Inc., a national PR firm specializing in books and authors (now run by Kelly Hughes), Carol has always been involved in publishing. "Momma's Enchanted Supper" is Carol's memoir of four generations of Iowans, each chapter springing from the Advent Scripture of the day. She also contributed essays to two collections: "Christmas Presence: Twelve Gifts That were More than They Seemed" and "Diamond Presence: Twelve Stories sof Finding God at the Old Ball Park." Her screenplay, "Pure Beholding," had a brief happy life as first place winner in a Texas screenwriting competition before dying peacefully, never produced. Carol and her husband Stan Reinisch live in Ocean Ridge, FL; they spend hurricane season in Evanston, IL. Their ten grandchildren come and go.