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Iris Dorbian

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Iris Dorbian is a former actress turned arts and business journalist and award-winning novelist. Her articles have appeared in a wide number of outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Thomson Reuters, Crain's NY Business, Business Insider, PE Hub, Venture Capital Journal, Buyouts, Investopedia.com, DMNews, CFO.com, Playbill, Backstage, Theatermania, Dance Magazine, Live Design, Media Industry Newsletter and PR News. From 1999 to 2007, Iris was the editor-in-chief of Stage Directions. She is the author of “Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater," (Allworth Press); "An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps" (third edition, Sunbury Press/Milford House Press); "Sentenced to Shakespeare" (Sunbury Press ...more

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An Epiphany in Lilacs: In t...

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Sentenced to Shakespeare

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Next Stop, Boston - Finalist - 2024 Storytrade Book Awards

Very honored to announce that "Next Stop, Boston" has won yet another honor: It has been named a finalist in the contemporary fiction category for the 2024 Storytrade Book Awards!

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“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
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