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Laurie Gwen Shapiro

The Stowaway

A Nice Feature in The Wall Street Journal on THE STOWAWAY

January 12, 2018January 16, 2018 lgsnyc

wsjA Teenage Stowaway’s Tale Comes to Life
New Simon & Schuster book recounts story of Billy Gawronski, who sneaked aboard a famed explorer’s ship to travel to Antarctica

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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.

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