English Department, Pratt help woman share story of son’s murder, WLBZ reports
WLBZ (Channel 2) reported Shirley Turner of Patten recently wrote a book about her son’s murder, titled “Destroying Angel.” Bruce Pratt, a novelist and English teacher at the University of Maine, has been helping Turner since 2010, when she came to UMaine’s Department of English seeking help, according to the report. Pratt said he is helping Turner put her book into manuscript form so she can get it published. “Shirley’s story is real, there’s no fiction here,” he said. “The fact that she can be so positive about moving forward just struck me that this is a story that needed to be told.” WVII (Channel 7) and WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) also reported on the book.