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Andrew Szanton

The Lush Urban World of Richard Price

RICHARD PRICE, born into a lower-middle-class Jewish family in 1949, is a gifted novelist from the Bronx, raised in the Parkside Houses and…

15h ago

15h ago

Ethan Allen, Both More and Less Than a Patriot

ETHAN ALLEN, born in rural Connecticut in 1738, and raised there, is the most dramatic figure in the early history of Vermont. Ethan and…

4d ago

4d ago

Mary Steenburgen: An Actress Makes Her First Film

MARY STEENBURGEN, the actress, was born in 1953 in Newport, Arkansas and raised in a middle class neighborhood of North Little Rock. She’s…

May 14

May 14

Frances Perkins: ‘Saint Frances of the Labor Department.’

FRANCES PERKINS was Secretary of Labor in Franklin Roosevelt’s White House — the fourth Secretary of Labor and the first female member of…

May 8

May 8

The Marathon Journey of Bobbi Gibb

Roberta Louise “BOBBI” GIBB, the first female runner of the Boston Marathon, was raised nearby in Winchester, Massachusetts. She’d gone to…

May 3

May 3

Richard Schickel: A Critic Seized and Consoled by the Movies

RICHARD SCHICKEL was born in Milwaukee in 1933 and raised there but lived most of his adult life in Los Angeles. He was of a new generation…

Apr 23

Apr 23

John Cheever and the Strange Dream of Suburbia

JOHN CHEEVER, born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1912, was an extraordinary short story writer and novelist. He published 121 stories in the…

Apr 9

Apr 9

The Voice of Aretha Franklin

ARETHA FRANKLIN, the singer born in Memphis in 1942, grew up in Detroit, and sang in the choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church, where her…

Apr 5

Apr 5

Troubled Water: The Problem of Being Simon & Garfunkel

PAUL SIMON, the songwriter, guitarist and performer of folk and pop music, was born in 1941 in Newark, New Jersey but raised in a…

Mar 29

Mar 29

George Pake and the Launching of the Xerox PARC Computer Science Lab

Here is Part Two of my two-part story about the Xerox Corporation opening the research center Xerox PARC in California in 1970, and hiring…

Mar 23

Mar 23

Andrew Szanton

Andrew Szanton

Andrew Szanton is a memoir collaborator based in Newton, MA. If you or someone you know wants to tell a life story, contact him at [email protected].

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