Confirmation

Dr. Barbara Yeager has been teaching, writing, editing, and producing, in one genre or another for forty years. Throughout her university classroom career, she taught composition, technical writing, and creative writing to graduate and undergraduate students, along with courses in British and American Literature, Children’s and Adolescent literature. Her other teaching assignments included courses in world religions and a variety of philosophy courses including ethics and introductions to classical and medieval, and modern philosophy.. Her published works include poetry, two outdoor drama productions The Secret of the Cellars and They Walked Our Land, and a text for teachers of pre-school children, Leading to Learning. Dr. Yeager edited collections of Appalachian short stories, Stories from the Hills, and a reader for Appalachian middle school students, named The Wooden Tower. When Barbara Yeager writes for adolescents, she draws ideas from her experiences while raising her five children. They gave her plenty of conflict for plots, serious dilemmas for themes, and their friends helped create a house full of well developed characters to study. That generation has now produced ten grandchildren with twice the material to enjoy. Retirement gives her the time to write and bring to the public the works that have been simmering in progress over the years. After studying, full-time teaching and an active family life with the children and her busy husband Jack, Barbara now enjoys the life of author and grandmother. When asked about Confirmation, Dr. Yeager says, "The religious minority group novel imparts information, and positively influences the mind, judgment, and imagination of young readers while it tells a story. That makes the genre potentially powerful and places great responsibility on the writer to be accurate and authentic in the presentation. I believe Confirmation achieves these goals."