Creator Bio
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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Leaving Brooklyn
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…