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Jennifer Steil

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Jennifer Steil is the author of The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, An American Woman’s Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth (2010, Broadway Books/Random House), a memoir of the year she spent as editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in Sana’a, Yemen. The book received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Sydney Morning Herald among other publications. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune chose it as one of their best travel books of the year in 2010, and Elle magazine awarded it their Readers’ Prize. It was released in paperback this summer.

Jennifer is now at work on a novel. After four years in Yemen, she lives in London with her fiancé Tim Torlot and their daughter Theadora Celeste.
While she currently works as a writer and...more


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What remains

September 11, 2011


What remains


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On September 11, 2001 I was in a yoga class in midtown Manhattan, envisioning a peaceful universe, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center.


But it wasn't until I had raced through a shower and was heading out of the locker room that I knew. Oddly, I cannot remember if someone told me or if it simply emanated from the chaos in the room. As I le...

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