Members of the Scribe

In my novel,  Margot , I reimagine Margot Frank, Anne’s older sister, having survived the war and come to Philadelphia where ...

My grandfather was a  Kohen , which I’ve learned (thanks to Google) means he was a Jewish priest, a descendant ...

In my late teens, when the Air Supply song “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,” was popular, I developed ...

When I was writing my memoir, which is sort of a chronicle of all my failed love relationships, each morning when ...

A few weeks ago I was asked to give a keynote address at a middle school. My ever-proud Jewish mother ...

For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...

Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were “wide ...

The call comes in the middle of the night.“Your nephew’s got it in his head that he wants to have ...

I’ve had four opportunities to visit the Soviet Union/Former Soviet Union over the years, the fourth being the trip I’m preparing ...

As a book editor, my work had always been behind the scenes. When Ron Rubin (an author I had previously ...