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Writing the book of Ruth
In the summer of 2014, while exploring ideas for a new book project, I stumbled across a news article that would set my course for the next five years. The article reported that the family of San Francisco sculptor Ruth Asawa, who’d died the previous summer at age 87, gave her archives to Stanford University’s Special Collections. That meant they would be available for study by students, scholars and writers. I was hooked.
Heroes and Survivors: “Be lucky”
We’re one week away from the release of my book, Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa. The first biography of an unsung artist and hero, it was five years in the making.
Now the official publication date of April 7, 2020, is upon us. But the normal butterflies of bringing out a book (will the book get good reviews?) are eclipsed by a global pandemic.