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Leslie Brody

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Bronx, NY, The United States

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http://www.lesliebrodybooks.com

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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My current book, a biography of Jessica Mitford is also literary and s...more

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Born in the Bronx, New York, Leslie Brody left home at the age of 17 to become an underground press reporter for the Berkeley Tribe. A year later, she set off to travel around Europe. From 1971-1976, Brody lived in London and Amsterdam, sampling various hippie occupations. She returned to California in the late 70s and worked as a librarian both at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, and for the Sierra Club, while attending college at San Francisco State University. Leslie Brody has won the PEN Center USA West prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and several awards for her playwriting. She is the author of the memoir Red Star Sister and the story collection A Motel of the Mind and teaches full time at the Creat...more

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DECCA REVIVAL

Is it too soon for a Decca revival? Oline Eaton has postedour interview on her site New Books In Biography.To myearsI'm a bit long winded but Oline is terrific through-out..
http://newbooksinbiography.com/2012/04/16/leslie-brody-irrepressible-the-life-and-times-of-jessica-mitford-counterpoint-press-2010

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Books by Leslie Brody

Average rating: 3.81 · 68 ratings · 31 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford 3.75 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Gender, Emotion, and the Family 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Motel of the Mind by Leslie Brody (Goodreads Author), Gary Amdahl 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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