Books
Elizabeth Stone’s interest in telling stories, her own and others’, is at the heart of her four books, all a mixture of memoir, social history, interviewing and reportage.
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
Family stories circulate in a family inconspicuously conveying deeply meaningful values, prohibitions, and prescriptions, about religion, politics, race and more. Half memoir, half researched, this is about the family stories that circulated in my own large Italian-American family as I was growing up, as well as stories I gathered in interviews with a hundred others.
Learn more a recent podcast interview about how the importance of family stories here.
The Hunter Campus Schools for The Gifted: The Challenge of Equity and Excellence
A social history of Hunter Elementary and Hunter High School from its 19th century origins to the present.
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned From Her Student
One day a box arrived at my door. In it was a death-bed letter from a student who’d kept in touch with me for 25 years, but whom I hadn’t seen since he was 14. In the box were a dozen volumes of his diaries. He had died of AIDS and asked me to write about his life. So I did.
Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage
Ghostwritten with Dina Matos McGreevey, ex-wife of Jim McGreevey, who resigned as governor of New Jersey, announcing he was gay after an adulterous affair with a member of his administration.
