Leonard Kriegel

Leonard Kriegel was born in the Bronx, New York in 1933 and still lives and writes about the city. At the age of eleven, he contracted polio, which left him without the use of his legs. It also left him with a focus for his anger as well as a subject for his writing. It was the subject of his first book, The Long Walk Home (1964), and he was to return to it in two recent collections of essays, Falling into Life (1991) and Flying Solo (1999). His essays and stories have appeared in such magazine as Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, and Harper's.

Published in VQR

• Confessions of An Ordinary Man, Autumn 2001
• Wonder Woman In the Land of Good and Plenty: Big Winners and Little Losers, Winter 1998
• New York Losers-And Winners, Autumn 1996
• Confessions of a Might-Have-Been Conservative, Winter 1996
• Boundaries of Freedom: Liberals, Patriotism, and Melting Pots, Winter 1995
• Beaches In Winter, Winter 1994
• The Face Beneath the Window: One Man’s View of Abortion, Spring 1993