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Foster’s journeys related in ‘Life Among the Pagans’
Evanston attorney, minister and clinical psychologist Leila Merrell Foster is the author of “Life Among the Pagans,” a novel described as a “walk into the tumultuous territory of third-century Britain – the land where both pagan and Christian beliefs reign and clash.”
This was her second Roman historical novel published in the past year. The first was “Search for the Cross.”
A former member of the ISBA Health Care Law Section Council and Committee on Mental Health Law, Foster has traveled to ruins of Roman settlements in the British Isles and has seen treasures of this civilization in museums.
She has a law degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Northwestern University, and a master of divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary.
Foster’s Capstone Fiction book describes the assignment of a fictional young Roman tribune to accompany four Christians to their new home in Britain’s pagan territory.
The tribune and his brother-in-law, one of the Christians, also have been given the dangerous mission of capturing men who sell army equipment to the enemy.
“Life Among the Pagans” (ISBN 978-1-60290-120-9) is available in retail outlets, from http://www.Amazon.com, or from the publisher at http://www.capstonefiction.com.
Lawyer pens biography
“Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold,” a biographical work by litigator Steven J. Harper of Kirkland & Ellis, will be released Jan. 28 by Northwestern University Press.
A former student of Leopold, Harper visited him every Sunday morning during the final two of his 95 years to compile his biography.
Called one of the 20th Century’s most prominent historians, Leopold was a culturally assimilated, non-practicing Jew. He received one the first doctorates in American history that Harvard awarded to “a person identified as Jewish.”
Harper’s first book, “Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster’s Story,” told about his father’s challenging experiences with the union.
Poems express feelings
“I Speak of Simple Things,” an anthology of poetry written by Donna G. Humphrey, is in its third printing since September by Ampersand Inc. (http://www.ampersandworks.com).
The mother of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow of U.S. District Court in Chicago, Mrs. Humphrey and the judge’s husband, Michael Lefkow, were murdered in 2005 by a disgruntled litigant.
“These poems tell stories about the life that she lived,” Judge Lefkow told a Chicago Daily Law Bulletin writer of her mother’s upbringing on a Kansas farm. “The things she saw. Feelings.”
Supplement is published
The 2007 supplement to the ISBA handbook, “Illinois Decisions on Search and Seizure,” is now available at https://secure.isba.org/bookstore/.
Compiled by legal scholars John W. Decker of the DePaul University College of Law and Ralph Ruebner of The John Marshall Law School, the supplement adds more than 140 cases to the 2005 publication. Cases are current through June 2007.