![]() ![]() We collected stories and poems and news items from all the other classes in the school. Our class put out a school newspaper called the Beardsley Press. I probably would never have become a writer if I hadn’t had Miss Curnias in the eighth grade. I began writing children’s books in 1972. ![]() The kids went to public schools in New York City (P.S. In 1960, I married Steve Gelman and we had two children, Mitch and Jan. I worked as an editor in New York for four years. ![]() I studied English and American Literature at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and anthropology at UCLA. I went to Beardsley Elementary School, Harding High School for one year, and Bassick High School for the last three years. She worked with my father in the drugstore and as a leader in community projects and whenever she had the time, she painted. My dad owned a drugstore on the east side of town (Golden’s Pharmacy) and my mom (maiden name, Frances Friedman) was a teacher who stopped teaching when she got married. I was born on July 2,1937, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |