Marie Chapian

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Marie Jordan
Marie Giordano

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Marie Chapian (also known as Marie Giordano and Marie Jordan{{Cite web |title=Marie Giordano {{!}} Authors |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/mariegiordano |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Macmillan |language=en-US}}) is an American writer and radio ministry host. She is known for her writings on Christian diet programs, Christian devotional literature, and co-authoring biographies.

Career

Chapian is known for her Christian writings, health and fitness writings, and co-authoring autobiographies. She has also written one novel, I love you like a tomato which she published as Marie Giordano.{{Cite book |last=Giordano |first=Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54931313 |title=I love you like a tomato |date=2004 |publisher=Tom Doherty Associates |isbn=0-7653-4588-9 |edition=1st |location=New York |oclc=54931313}} Reviews for this book:

{{Cite news |last=Zaleski |first=Zeff |date=June 9, 2003 |title=I Love You Like a Tomato |volume=250 |pages=35 |work=Publishers Weekly; New York |issue=23 }}
{{Cite news |last=Gibbon |first=Maureen |date=2003-07-13 |title=Home grown |pages=F12 |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100999127/home-grown/ |access-date=2022-05-04}} She has written a series of books about Christian diet programs, including Free to Be Thin that she co-authored with Neva Coyle in 1979.{{Cite book |last=Chapian |first=Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9784519 |title=Free to be thin |date=1979 |publisher=Bethany House Publishers |others=Neva Coyle |isbn=0-87123-560-9 |location=Minneapolis, Minn. |oclc=9784519}} Reviews for Free to be Thin:
{{Cite news |last=Cane |first=Monica |date=2005 |title=A Book, a Treadmill, and a Prayer |volume=21 |pages=14–15 |work=Vibrant Life; Nampa |issue=1 }} A second edition, All new free to be thin was published in 1994,{{Cite book |last=Coyle |first=Neva |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31958821 |title=The all-new free to be thin |date=1993 |publisher=Bethany House Publishers |others=Marie Chapian, Marie Chapian |isbn=1-55661-312-1 |edition=Totally rev. and updated |location=Minneapolis, Minn. |oclc=31958821}} along with There's more to being thin than being thin.{{Cite book |last=Coyle |first=Neva |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11113551 |title=There's more to being thin than being thin |date=1984 |publisher=Bethany House |others=Marie Chapian |isbn=0-87123-443-2 |location=Minneapolis, Minn. |oclc=11113551}} Reviewed in
{{Cite book |last=Spanbauer |first=Judy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LsbAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22marie+chapian%22&pg=PA6&article_id=6828,8756491 |title=Mountain 'getaway' book recommended |work=The Times-News |date=June 20, 1985 |language=en}} She created the Blessercize aerobics video, Fun To Be Fit, which is set to Christian music.{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Anne |title="The Miseducation Of Cameron Post" Exposes The Underbelly Of Gay Conversion Therapy |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/07/205833/miseducation-of-cameron-post-movie-review-chloe-grace-moretz |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=www.refinery29.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Warren |first=Jennifer |date=1984-10-31 |title=Fitness with a religious twist |pages=46 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100812592/fitness-with-a-religious-twist/ |access-date=2022-05-01}} Chapian has written Christian devotional books, including Mothers & daughters{{Cite book |last=Chapian |first=Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17650440 |title=Mothers & daughters |date=1988 |publisher=Bethany House Publishers |isbn=1-55661-007-6 |location=Minneapolis, Minn. |oclc=17650440}} Reviewed
{{Cite news |last=Garding |first=Valerie |date=1988-07-20 |title=Good books |pages=30 |work=The Abbotsford News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100767565/good-books/ |access-date=2022-04-30}} and His thoughts towards me that was published in English and Russian.{{Cite book |last=Chapian |first=Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/982187123 |title=His thoughts toward me |date=2006 |publisher=HRI Press |location=Moscow |language=Russian |oclc=982187123}} In 1988 she won a Gold Medallion book award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for her book Am I the only one here with faded genes?.{{Cite web |title=Christian Book Expo: 1988 Gold Medallion Book Awards Winners |url=https://christianbookexpo.com/christianbookawards/gm1988.php |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=christianbookexpo.com}} She has won the Cornerstone Book of the Year Award and a Silver Angel Award.[http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/AuthorDetail.asp?CreatorID=1971&name=Marie_Chapian Marie Chapian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716143951/http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/AuthorDetail.asp?CreatorID=1971&name=Marie_Chapian|date=2011-07-16}}, thomasnelson.com{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=May 2022}}

Chapian has co-authored biographies. Cathleen Mae Webb agreed to write a book with Chapian about why she withdrew her charges of rape and kidnapping against Gary Dotson.{{Cite news |last=McDowell |first=Edwin |date=1985-07-29 |title=Publishing: Recanted Rape Charge |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/29/books/publishing-recanted-rape-charge.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |issn=0362-4331}} The resulting book, Forgive Me, was published in 1985.{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Cathleen Crowell |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12724445 |title=Forgive me |date=1985 |publisher=F.H. Revell Co |others=Marie Chapian |isbn=0-8007-1462-8 |location=Old Tappan, N.J. |oclc=12724445}} Reviews for book:

{{Cite news |last=Grimes |first=Ann |date=1985-12-15 |title=A 'Panic to Please' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/15/books/a-panic-to-please.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |issn=0362-4331}}
{{Cite news |last=Gillespie |first=Mary |date=11 November 1985 |title=Webb's broken childhood makes for chilling reading |pages=26 |work=Chicago Sun–Times; Chicago, Ill.}}
{{Cite news |last=Liss |first=Barbara |date=10 November 1985 |title=The girl who cried 'rape': Cathy Webb tells her story |pages=17 |work=Houston Chronicle; Houston, Tex. }}

She also co-authored books with Gavin MacLeod{{Cite book |last=MacLeod |first=Gavin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15284955 |title=Back on course |date=1987 |publisher=F.H. Revell Co |others=Patti MacLeod, Marie Chapian |isbn=0-8007-1533-0 |location=Old Tappan, N.J. |oclc=15284955}} Reviews

{{Cite news |last=Whetsell |first=Elizabeth D. |date=1987-10-04 |title=Gavin McLeod, wife find lives are 'back on course' following their remarriage |pages=47 |work=The Times and Democrat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100812858/gavin-mcleod-wife-find-lives-are-back/ |access-date=2022-05-01}} and Robert Sadler.{{Cite book |last1=Sadler |first1=Robert |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1341539.html |title=The emancipation of Robert Sadler |last2=Chapian |first2=Marie |date=1975 |publisher=Bethany Fellowship |location=Minneapolis |isbn=9780871231321 |language=English |oclc=680003461}} Reviewed
{{Cite news |last=Haas |first=Andrea |date=1975-06-20 |title=Former slave now is devoted to evangelism |pages=3 |work=The Marion Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100812393/former-slave-now-is-devoted-to/ |access-date=2022-05-01}}

Selected publications

{{Cite book |last=Chapian |first=Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9784519 |title=Free to be thin |date=1979 |publisher=Bethany House Publishers |others=Neva Coyle |isbn=0-87123-560-9 |location=Minneapolis, Minn. |oclc=9784519}}
{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Cathleen Crowell |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12724445 |title=Forgive me |date=1985 |publisher=F.H. Revell Co |others=Marie Chapian |isbn=0-8007-1462-8 |location=Old Tappan, N.J. |oclc=12724445}}
{{Cite book |last=Giordano |first=Marie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54931313 |title=I love you like a tomato |date=2004 |publisher=Tom Doherty Associates |isbn=0-7653-4588-9 |edition=1st |location=New York |oclc=54931313}}