Sue Arnold
Sue Arnold is a british journalist, who writes or has written for both The Observer and The Guardian. Since losing her sight as a result of a medical condition (retinitis pigmentosa (RP)) her writing has often been related to radio criticism and reviewing of audiobooks. Her mother was Burmese and her father british and she was raised in both Burma and the UK. [1][2][3]
She has written about her medicinal use of cannabis and expressed views first in favour and subsequently against liberlising its use.[3][4][5]
She has also written a memoir of her search for her maternal grandparents lives A Burmese Legacy.[6][7]
Books
Arnold, Sue (1985) Curiouser And Curiouser The Best Of Sue Arnold, Constable, London
Arnold, Sue (1996) A Burmese Legacy: Rediscovering My Family, Hodder,(ISBN: 0340416092 / 0-340-41609-2 )[8]
References
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/suearnold The Guardian: Sue Arnold's profile (Accessed Feb 2011)
- ^ http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/expfaith/buddmanu/index.html British Library: Buddism: Sue Arnold (Accessed Feb 2011)
- ^ a b http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/212301.stm BBC News: Smoking dope restored my sight Wednesday, November 11 (Reproducing an article from the The Observer September 1997) (Accessed Feb 2011)
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jan/18/drugsandalcohol.society Arnold, Sue (2004) Why I ditched my liberal views on dope: Sue Arnold wanted to legalise cannabis - until the drug triggered a psychotic episode in her son, The Observer, Sunday 18 January (Accessed Feb 2011)
- ^ Arnold, Sue (1998) Perspectives - Sue Arnold, now registered blind, found her eyesight improving after smoking a joint at a party, Nursing standard. 12, no. 22, : 17
- ^ http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/reading-between-the-lines-of-trip-down-under-1.472085 Shields, Tom (1996) Reading between the lines of trip down under, The Herald of Scotland, 9 Jan (Accessed Feb 2011)
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/book-review--walking-on-eggshells-1325978.html Hardyment, Christina (1996) Book Review / Walking on eggshells A Burmese Legacy: Rediscovering My Family by Sue Arnold, The Independent, Saturday, 27 January 1996 (Accessed Feb 2011)
- ^ A review of A Burmese Legacy by Sue Arnold, The Times Literary Supplement. no. 4850, (1996): 33
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