JOAN MELLEN

Official website of Author and Temple University Professor Joan Mellen. Her twenty-four books, most recently "Blood in the Water", include "A Farewell To Justice," "Our Man In Haiti" and "The Great Game in Cuba," explore the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in the planning and cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.

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JOAN MELLEN

Photo Gallery, Cuba

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http://thegospelcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/ALFA_DATA Gladys Smithies, sister of Alberto Fernandez de Hechavarria (holding book).

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Gustavo de los Reyes; Helen Kleberg Groves, daughter of Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., with the author.

 

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Author Joan Mellen

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"If you are able to read just one book in 2019, I urge it to be Joan Mellen's Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty."

http://karen-keogh.co.uk/point-road/ —Richard Falk, "Joan Mellen's Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty," Foreign Policy Journal, April 1, 2019.

About Joan Mellen

Joan MellenJOAN MELLEN is the bestselling author of twenty-four books, including A Farewell to Justice, her biographical study of Jim Garrison’s New Orleans investigation of the Kennedy assassination. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.

In 2004, she was awarded one of Temple University's coveted “Great Teacher” awards for outstanding achievement, in particular in the graduate program in creative writing.

Joan Mellen lives in Pennington, New Jersey.

Titles by Joan Mellen

The Great Game In Cuba
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The paperback of THE GREAT GAME IN CUBA is now available.

An Expanded Edition

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Substantially updated (100 new pages) with a section of CIA documents in a new appendix.
The text has also been revised.

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The Last Word on the Assassination (2014)

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This unforgettable event features 'The Garrison Tapes'...the definitive documentary on the horror that changed America and the world...followed by a fascinating panel of the most knowledgeable, brilliant writers in the field: Jim Marrs, Joan Mellen and Dick Russell. Along with Host and Garrison film executive producer, John Barbour.

Recent Posts

  • A new edition of Seven Samurai (BFI Film Classics), Joan Mellen’s Analysis of director Akira Kurosawa’s Classic Film is included in the British Film Institute’s “Screen Studies.”
  • Kirkus Reviews Book Review of Joan Mellen’s “Blood in the Water”
  • Praise for “Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty”
  • Joan Mellen Interviewed on The Ochelli Effect, 2/15/19
  • Alan Dale Interviews Joan Mellen on the Subject of “Blood In The Water”

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