Girl on a Hill
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Evanston, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | I am Ardis Berghoff and I have been a freelance writer for 14 years. I write about arts, culture and do profiles for magazines. I also write about business, mainly for large corporations and consulting firms. My corporate writing business is based in Chicago. |
| Interests | Books, long-form journalism, adventure, running, sailing, jazz, food, travel, Mexico, arts, culture, photography |
| Favorite movies | The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sunset Boulevard, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Lawrence of Arabia |
| Favorite music | Jazz in general, bebop,Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Kurt Elling, Stan Getz, Django Reinhardt, bossa nova, samba, Cowboy Junkies, classical |
| Favorite books | Gay Talese essays/articles, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, novels by Wallace Stegner (especially Angle of Repose), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex) and Philip Roth (American Pastoral), non-fiction books by Robert Kurson, Susan Orlean, Jon Krakauer. |