Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is a writer and filmmaker whose hit 2018 non-fiction book The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Journey to Antarctica (Simon & Schuster) is just out in paperback.
Back in the Stone Age of the early 1980s when people still relied on landlines, I was a latchkey kid who often answered the phone for my parents before they got home from work.
Lost 1978 tape of the author's grandmother Fannie Meiselman, recorded when Laurie was 12.

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