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Laurie Gwen Shapiro

The Stowaway

The Stowaway now available for preorder, out January 2018

September 4, 2017October 30, 2017 lgsnyc

The Stowaway is now available for preorder!book-cover-250 The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.

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About the Author

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Stowaway Simon & Schuster was her bestselling first full-length work of nonfiction, and was an Indie next selection.  Her next nonfiction book will be Amelia and George, for Viking Books.

Recent Posts

  • My latest for The Forward
  • My new story in New York Magazine (Curbed)
  • Amelia Earhart (and I) Turned Up in the Halls of Congress
  • My Latest on Amelia Earhart’s Kimono at the Daily Beast
  • I won the Silurians Press Awards Gold Medallion for Best People Profile!

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