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Occasional Writing by Jeanne Schinto

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Jeanne Schinto: Jeanne Schinto has been an independent writer since 1973. She is the author of Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City (Knopf, 1995), a memoir of the ten years she spent in the old textile-mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She has also published articles on art, history, and the material culture in a variety of publications, ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Gastronomica. Ms. Schinto was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1951. She has degrees from George Washington University (B.A., journalism and American studies) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., creative writing). She has been a MacDowell Colony fellow and the recipient of a research support grant from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Currently a monthly contributor to Maine Antique Digest, covering auctions, antiques shows, and trends in the trade, she lives in Andover, Massachusetts with her husband, Bob Frishman, a horologist. For more information, see www.jeanneschinto.com

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