THE BASICS

A brief (or quite lengthy) autobiography can go in the center column of this page. You may want to insert a photo or two in this side column. You can also insert photos in the center column.

If you're inserting a lengthy biography, you should probably do it with several consecutive text boxes. This will make editing easier and will allow you to have occasional bold headers separating the text.

To use several text boxes, simply click the "Add text" box at the top of the center column. (You must be in Edit Mode to see that box.) Insert your first few paragraphs and save. Then click the "Add text" box again for your next block of text.

You can then position the text with the little arrows that appear in the blue boxes directly above the text.

Add headers with the "Add header" box and position them in the same way.

This information also appears in the Help section in the toolbar at the top of the page. Delete this entire entry by clicking the small blue "Delete" box that appears directly above this entry when you're in Edit Mode.

Renaming Sections


If you've already included all the bio you want on your home page, then this page can be used for something else. Simply rename it.

To rename this or any page, click the "Edit menu" box directly above the navigation bar (the navigation bar says "Home, My Works, Biography, etc." on it). You must be in Edit Mode to see the "Edit menu" box. Enter a new name for the section and save it.

While you're editing the menu, you may want to hide sections that you're not yet using.

To complete the renaming of this section, click the "Edit page title" box in the center column of this page.

Honors

SHAKESPEARE'S KITCHEN
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 2008

Washington Post Best General Fiction & Poetry of 2007

Chapter 8, "Other People's Deaths", originally published in the New Yorker, was reprinted in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2008

OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES
Clifton Fadiman Medal 2007

Selected Works

Novel
Lucinella
A hilarious novel about the New York literary life.
Shakespeare's Kitchen
Thirteen interrelated stories, seven of which appeared in the New Yorker, about the longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them.
1. Novels
Her First American
Young Ilka from Vienna learns about America by loving a middle-aged black journalist on the skids.
Other People's Houses
The journey of a Jewish refugee child from Vienna via England and the Dominican Republic to New York.
2. Picture Books
Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories
Four sweet and funny stories by Lore Segal and Sergio Ruzzier about Mole and his Grandmother Mole.
The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless her Cat
Mrs. Lovewright and the cat who wouldn't purr. Pictures by Caldecott-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky
Morris the Artist
Morris won’t give the birthday boy the present he has brought him.
Tell Me a Mitzi
Pictures by Harriet Pincus. Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
3. Fairy Tales
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
A selection of the Grimm fairy tales Translated by Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell Pictures by Maurice Sendak
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