Creator Bio
Jack Marshall
b. 1936
Jack Marshall grew up in an Arabic-speaking Jewish home in Brooklyn. He is a poet, playwright, and memoirist whose works explore his Sephardic heritage. The recipient of the PEN West Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for From Baghdad to Brooklyn, Marshall was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
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From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Mid-Century America
My mother often sent me shopping to 18th Avenue (not a far distance, but for a kid it was unfamiliar territory), the district of Middle Eastern groceries, whose shopkeepers were…