Abstract
When she was six years old, Sarah Schulman received a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank from her grandmother. “The lesson I learned from reading it is that girls can be writers,” says Schulman. “I started a diary and wrote in it, ‘When I grow up, I will write books.’” She’s kept that childhood promise, with novels such as Empathy, People in Trouble, and the soon-tobe-released The Child.
Schulman is also author of more than a dozen plays, including Carson McCullers and Manic Flight Reaction. Her latest project is an adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel Enemies, A