Helene Stapinski
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Helene Stapinski

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Helene Stapinski grew up in Jersey City, NJ, captured in her best selling memoir, Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, which was made into a PBS documentary. Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair with Music traces her time playing drums in a rock band on the Lower East Side. Murder in Matera takes readers to Southern Italy, where she uncovers a 19th century family murder. Her newest book, The American Way, written with co-author Bonnie Siegler, tells the story of Bonnie's grandfather, who escaped Nazi Germany with the help of the publisher of Superman comics and went on to live in New York City, where he filmed Marilyn Monroe on the Lexington Avenue subway grate. Stapinski got her start at her hometown newspaper, worked as a radio DJ and news director in Alaska, has taught at Fordham University and NYU, her alma mater, has lectured at Columbia University, where she received her MFA, and has appeared on the Moth main stage, on NPR and the Today Show. She writes regularly for The New York Times and has been published in New York magazine, Salon.com, Travel & Leisure, Real Simple and dozens of other magazines, newspapers and web sites. Her work has been included in several anthologies, including Drinking Diaries: Women Tell Their Stories Straight Up. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Wendell Jamieson, their two children and their dog, Scout.
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