Maura McEnaney in Wichita to promote her book

  
Former BJ reporter Maura McEnaney, wife of former BJ sports editor Ken Krause, has authored a book, “Willard Garvey: An Epic Life.”

Garvey built homes in the USA, South America and Asia for people with low incomes, is owner-operator of the “world’s largest” grain elevator, is the “largest private landowner in Nevada” and builder of Kansas’s tallest building—the Epic Center with its slanted copper roof.

Syracuse graduate Maura’s 30+ years as a business writer and editor include being on the BJ team that won a Pulitzer Gold Medal for its “A Question of Color” about race relations in the Akron area. She left the BJ for Boston in 2000 and later worked for Bloomberg News.

Maura and Ken live in Medford, Massachusetts, where they have quilt art by former BJ editor/reporter Connie Bloom, a fabric art guru in Ohio, a birthday gift from Maura to Ken.

C-SPAN2 will rerun Maura's talk at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17. If you can’t wait, you can watch her 33-minute appearance at the Wichita, Kansas Rotary Club by clicking on http://www.independent.org/multimedia/detail.asp?m=2452