LEONARD KRIEGEL

Leonard Kriegel was born in the Bronx, New York on May 25, 1933 and still live 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). Mr. Kriegel is also the author of a book on the idea of manhood and masculinity (ON MEN AND MANHOOD, 1980) and the novel QUITTING TIME (1980) as well as the memoir NOTES FOR THE TWO-DOLLAR WINDOW (1976). His essays and stories have appeared in such magazine as QVR, PARTISAN REVIEW, SEWANEE REVIEW, and HARPER'S. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. His wor is frequently anthologized and has been included in such collections as BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS and THE O. HENRY AWARDS volume. He has just finished a book about New York.