Le Anne Schreiber
Associate Professor
Writer in Residence
MA, Harvard University
Humanities 350
442-4097
A native of Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Le Anne Schreiber left the Midwest to attend Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she enrolled as a chemistry major and departed as an English major. After graduate studies at Stanford and Harvard, she taught in the Harvard English Department for three years, then left to become a staff writer for TIME Magazine, where she covered foreign affairs and the 1976 Summer Olympics. That led to a stint as editor-in-chief of Womensport's Magazine, founded by Billie Jean King, and later to her appointment as sports editor of The New York Times, where she supervised a staff of 59 men. In 1980, she left sports to serve as deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review for the next four years. In 1984, she moved from Manhattan to Columbia County, where she has worked as an independent journalist and writer of essays, memoirs and criticism. She is the author of two memoirs, Midstream (Viking/Penguin 1990) and "Light Years" (Lyons&Burford/Anchor,1996). Her shorter work has appeared in LIFE, Glamour, Elle, SELF, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and The Yale Review. She has received several awards for her writing, including a National Magazine Award for public interest journalism. In recent years she has taught in Columbia University's graduate writing program and at The New York State Writer's Institute in Albany. At present she is working on a third book of nonfiction.
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