Leaving Brooklyn

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

1989

The summer I was fifteen years old—just before my senior year in high school, for I had skipped grades—a new thing under the sun appeared in Brooklyn. Contact lenses. My parents made inquiries. Apparently a lens could be designed that would fit my eye, magnify the iris to the same size as its partner, and discipline its wanderings. The lens would…

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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

b. 1939

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lynne Sharon Schwartz has published novels, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and translations. She is a faculty member at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Schwartz was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Award, and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts.

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