Sande Boritz Berger
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Sande Boritz Berger

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All the uncertainties of childhood, simple pleasures that were quickly invaded by fears, became my motivation for writing. Most often I felt as though whatever was happening was happening just to me. I wondered who could possibly understand what it was like to be inside my skin. And then I began to read. Reading became my great escape. Our town's wood- shingled library resembled a one room schoolhouse. To enter through the red-painted door was like entering a womb, warm, nurturing, especially on the days I might have been teased or disappointed by a friend. I can still picture the cramped, cluttered interior, the faces of the other regulars, some were the school "losers"...those ignored by the most popular. Was I one of them too? I'd spend hours perusing the shelves, sniffing the inside covers smelling the sappiness of paper, the slight chemical smell of printer's ink. I was drawn to biographies or stories about young people from different cultures and countries. I could lose myself completely, disappear or become someone else, if only for a few days. I devoured every book on Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Clara Barton, and then there was the martyr─ my favorite: Joan of Arc. Somewhere in my young mind, I filed away the important virtues of working hard, of doing well, and sacrifice. But whenever I attempted to write anything, whether a poem or short story, it presented itself as longing. As a teenager, I was motivated by desperation and anger often scribbling cryptic messages inside the petals of the ivy and rose pattern of my bedroom wallpaper, praying not to be found out─ yet feeling just the opposite: wanting them to know. I was the only daughter in a 1950's split-level house with two feisty younger brothers, a traveling salesman Dad, and a gin-playing, party girl, Mom. In the sloping attic tower that became my room, I felt invisible. The sheer act of reading kept me company, while teaching me about the diversity of people's lives. Reading helped widen the borders of the narrow world I inhabited. www.sandeboritzberger.com After two decades as a scriptwriter and video/film producer for Fortune 500 companies, Sande Boritz Berger returned to her passion: writing both fiction and non-fiction full time. Her stories and essays have been published in The Rambler Magazine, Every Woman Has a Story by Warner Books, Ophelia's Mom by Crown Publishing, Aunties: Thirty-five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother by Ballantine and others. Sande received an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Stony Brook Southampton College where she received the Deborah Hecht Memorial prize for fiction. The Sweetness was a semi-finalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel awards. The author lives with her husband in Manhattan. She has two daughters.
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