Authors
Lee Stringer
Lee Stringer
<p><b>Lee Stringer’s</b> journey
from childhood homelessness in the 1960s to adult homelessness in the ’80s to
his present career as a writer and lecturer, as told in <i>Sleepaway School </i>and
<i>Grand Central Winter</i>, is one of the great odysseys of contemporary
American life and letters. Stringer, the only board member of Project Renewal
who is also a former patient of the facility, has demonstrated that writers are
made, not born. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award
and, in 2005, a Lannan Foundation Residency. He is a former editor and
columnist of <i>Street News</i>. His essays and articles have appeared in
a variety of other publications, including the<i> Nation</i>,<i> New York Times</i>, and <i>Newsday</i>. He
lives in Mamaroneck, New York, where he also serves on the board of the
Mamaroneck Public Libraries.</p>