Jeanne Schinto has been an independent writer since 1973. She is the author of Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City (Knopf, 1995), a memoir of the ten years she spent in the old textile-mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She has also published articles on art, history, and the material culture in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Gastronomica, Fine Art Connoisseur, Johns Hopkins Magazine, and DoubleTake Magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous other places: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Magazine, The Women’s Review of Books, Yankee Magazine, and The Nation. Her creative nonfiction has been in The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and many other literary periodicals.
Her short fiction has been collected in Shadow Bands (Ontario Review Press, 1988) and in several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories (edited by John Updike), The Ways We Live Now, You Don’t Know What Love Is, Perfect Lies, and Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. In addition, she has edited three anthologies of her own. She is also the author of a novel, Children of Men (Persea Books, 1991).
In 1986 and from 1992 to 1998, she was the writer-in-residence at Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, a private preparatory high school.
From 1998 to 2004, she was a regular contributor to one of the largest alternative newspapers in the country, San Diego Reader. For the Reader, she wrote extensive feature profiles (10,000 to 20,000 words) about a neurologist, a marine artist, an orchestra conductor, and an experimental composer, and major pieces of the same length about computer hackers, audiophiles, 3-D photographers, World War II POWs, and birders. For her short (1000-word), weekly column, which she produced for four and a half years, she interviewed dozens of people in virtually all fields of endeavor, from Edward O. Wilson and Tammy Fay Bakker to Tony Hawk and Edward Gorey’s literary executor, Andreas Brown, as well as numerous lesser-knowns, from graphic novelists to Australian Rules footballers to residents of a Zen Buddhist monastery. The territory ranged from the northernmost point of San Diego County all the way south to Tijuana.
From 2003 until 2020, she was a reporter for Maine Antique Digest.
Ms. Schinto was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1951. She has degrees from George Washington University (B.A., journalism and American studies) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., creative writing). She has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, the recipient of a research support grant from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a creative writing fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts with her husband, Bob Frishman, a horologist. See Mr. Frishman's website at: http://www.bell-time.com.
Her short fiction has been collected in Shadow Bands (Ontario Review Press, 1988) and in several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories (edited by John Updike), The Ways We Live Now, You Don’t Know What Love Is, Perfect Lies, and Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. In addition, she has edited three anthologies of her own. She is also the author of a novel, Children of Men (Persea Books, 1991).
In 1986 and from 1992 to 1998, she was the writer-in-residence at Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, a private preparatory high school.
From 1998 to 2004, she was a regular contributor to one of the largest alternative newspapers in the country, San Diego Reader. For the Reader, she wrote extensive feature profiles (10,000 to 20,000 words) about a neurologist, a marine artist, an orchestra conductor, and an experimental composer, and major pieces of the same length about computer hackers, audiophiles, 3-D photographers, World War II POWs, and birders. For her short (1000-word), weekly column, which she produced for four and a half years, she interviewed dozens of people in virtually all fields of endeavor, from Edward O. Wilson and Tammy Fay Bakker to Tony Hawk and Edward Gorey’s literary executor, Andreas Brown, as well as numerous lesser-knowns, from graphic novelists to Australian Rules footballers to residents of a Zen Buddhist monastery. The territory ranged from the northernmost point of San Diego County all the way south to Tijuana.
From 2003 until 2020, she was a reporter for Maine Antique Digest.
Ms. Schinto was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1951. She has degrees from George Washington University (B.A., journalism and American studies) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., creative writing). She has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, the recipient of a research support grant from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a creative writing fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts with her husband, Bob Frishman, a horologist. See Mr. Frishman's website at: http://www.bell-time.com.