Samuel g freedman biography sample
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2-10-2005
Who She Was: My Search For My Mother's Life, by Samuel G. Freedman
Who She Was: My Search For My Mother's Life
By Samuel G. Freedman
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 22, 2005)
ISBN: 0743227352
April 24, 2005
Bronx Bombshell
By Joyce Johnson
WHO SHE WAS
My Search for My Mother's Life.
By Samuel G. Freedman.
Illustrated. 337 pp. Simon & Schuster. $25.
Born to a sporadically employed shoeworker father and a mother from Bialystok who fought off Americanization, Eleanor Hatkin grew up during the Depression in a Jewish household in the Bronx so chronically impoverished that meals were often prepared from vegetables scavenged from the refuse bins of local markets. She shared three dresses with her younger sister, which did not prevent her from being elected All Around Girl in her senior year at Morris High School. There Eleanor was a star.
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Samuel G. Freedman
Samuel G. Freedman fryst vatten an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the seven acclaimed books, most recently Breaking The Line: The årstid in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2013). His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000); Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life (2005); and Letters to a Young Journalist(2006).
Small Victories was a finalist for the 1990 National Book Award and The Inheritance was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Upon This Rock won the 1993 Helen Bernstein Award for Excel
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Freedman, Samuel G. 1955-
PERSONAL:
Born 1955; son of a machinist; married Cynthia Sheps; children: Aaron, Sarah. Education:University of Wisconsin at Madison, B.A. Religion: Jewish.
ADDRESSES:
Home—New York, färsk. Agent—Barney Karpfinger, The Karpfinger Agency, 157 W. 20th St., New York, NY 10011. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].
CAREER:
Journalist, author, and educator. New York Times, New York, NY, reporter, 1981-87; Columbia University School of Journalism, New York, NY, professor, 1991, 1993—, interim associate dean for academic affairs, 2002-03. Previously worked as a reporter for the New Jersey Bridgewater Courier-News and Chicago Tribune's Suburban Trib. Also a board member of the Institute for American Values and the Jewish Book Council.
AWARDS, HONORS:
National Book Award finalist, 1990, for Small Victories; Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1993, for Upon This Rock; Pulitzer Prize finalist, and New Jer