Phyllis Schieber

Bio

The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber’s life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants. In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known as “Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson.”

She graduated from high school at sixteen, earned a B.A. in English from Herbert H. Lehman College, an M.A. in Literature from New York University, and later an M.S. as a Developmental Specialist from Yeshiva University.

She lives in Westchester County where she spends her days creating new stories and teaching writing.

Phyllis Schieber is the author of four novels, The Manicurist, The Sinner’s Guide to Confession, Willing Spirits, and Strictly Personal. She is currently working on a memoir, Background Music, about growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors. Faces is a piece from this growing collection of vignettes.

Stories

Faces

From Washington Heights about 1960s, Ancestors, Auschwitz, civil rights, Crime & Punishment, Education, Family, holocaust, In Search of Lost Time, JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., The Politics of..., War
Published on: 08/03/2012

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From Washington Heights about Crime and Punishment, Family, heritage, Hitler, holocaust, inheritance, Judaism, Old New York, War, WWII
Published on: 05/01/2011