The Sophie Horowitz Story by Sarah Schulman

She is co-founder of the ACT UP Oral History Project and MIX: NY Queer Experimental Film and Video Festival, now in its 25th year. Sarah organized the first US tour of Queer Palestinian Leaders and the first US LGBT Delegation to Palestine. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and the Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Her awards include: Guggenheim (Playwrighting), Fulbright (Judaic Studies), 3 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (Playwrighting and Fiction), 2 American Library Association Book Awards (Fiction and Nonfiction), the Kessler Prize for Sustained Contribution to LGBT Studies. She is co-producer of UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP.

She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, and has long served on the advisory board of Jewish. Her first novel, The Sophie Horowitz Story, was published in 1984, and her latest novel, Maggie Terry, was released in September by Feminist Press. Sarah Schulman is the author of the novels: The Mere Future, The Child, Shimmer, Empathy, Rat Bohemia, People In Trouble, After Delores, Girls Visions and Everything, The Sophie Horowitz Story and the nonfiction books My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During The Reagan/Bush Years, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America,Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, the plays: Carson McCullers, Manic Flight Reaction and the stage adaptation of IB Singer’s Enemies, a Love Story, and the films The Owls and Mommy is Coming. Sarah Schulman is a writer, teacher and activist from New York City.

The Sophie Horowitz Story by Sarah Schulman