TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - Polish Americans KW - journalists KW - priests AU - Allen Drury AB - At the start of World War II, Anna Kowalczek, a Polish girl from Punxsutawney, arrives on Capitol Hill as a journalist and in the next 30 years becomes Washington’s leading female reporter. Anna reminisces about her hometown and sometimes returns to her Polish-American family Western Pennsylvania. C1 - 1940s-1970s C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Jefferson County; Punxsutawney C4 - Literary; Women’s CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - At the start of World War II, Anna Kowalczek, a Polish girl from Punxsutawney, arrives on Capitol Hill as a journalist and in the next 30 years becomes Washington’s leading female reporter. Anna reminisces about her hometown and sometimes returns to her Polish-American family Western Pennsylvania. PB - William Morrow and Company, Inc. PP - New York PY - 1977 RN - Allen Stuart Drury (1918-1998), born in Houston, grew up in California and graduated from Stanford. He worked as a U. S. Senate correspondent for United Press and over the years wrote more than a dozen novels about Washington politics. He is best known for Advise and Consent (1959), which won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and its 1962 Hollywood adaptation by Otto Preminger. EP - 300 p. TI - Anna Hastings: The Story of a Washington Newspaperperson! ER -