ROSLYN BERNSTEIN www.roslynbernstein.com

Roslyn Bernstein is a professor emerita of journalism and creative writing at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the founding director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at Baruch College. Bernstein has reported on arts and culture from around the globe for such print publications as the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Parents, Artnews, and the Columbia Journalism Review, and for such online publications as Tablet, Artslant, Tikkun, Huffington Post, and Guernica.

Her latest book, The Girl Who Counted Numbers is set in Jerusalem during the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961, It was published on October 12th, 2022 by Amsterdam Publishers. Her previous books are Boardwalk Stories, a collection of 14 linked tales set in the years 1950 to 1970 and Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). She is also the co-author with the architect Shael Shapiro of Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, published by the Jonas Mekas Foundation.

Praise for The Girl Who Counted Numbers:

"All families must deal with the past in order to move forward, but for some families that is harder than for others. Roslyn Bernstein's beautiful new novel chronicles one family's difficult quest for peace. Moving, nuanced and inspiring, this gripping book rings achingly true."

--Gish Gen, author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon

"Buckle up for an unforgettable journey as Roslyn Bernstein's The Girl Who Counted Numbers plunges her intrepid heroine into the secrets of her uncle's wartime past. Against the backdrop of the Eichmann trial in Israel, one woman's quest evolves from finding a missing person to confronting her own identity;., forged from the ashes of the Holocaust and the confines of politics and prejudice. A thrilling detective story, a moving love story, a timeless encounter with history."

--Ann Kirschner, author of Sala's Gifts

"This is the deeply researched story of a quest for a homeland that rings of justice and longing. Roslyn Bernstein deals with how we remember, and how we confront our morally complicated histories. A wonderful book for our times."

Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon

Praise for Engaging Art:

“Roslyn Bernstein takes you around the world in this collection, from SoHo to Vietnam, from Jerusalem to Costa Rica, and it's a delightfully personal tour. The emphasis always is on the artists and their work, but along the way you develop a feel for your guide: her life, her politics, and most of all her passion. This is a rich and rewarding book, animated by its author's hungry eye.”

--Russell Shorto, author of Amsterdam and The Island at the Center of the World

Praise for Illegal Living

"They say real estate makes you crazy, and the artist-developer George Maciunas was wonderfully crazy, inventing the artist's loft and changing the face of SoHo forever. Illegal Living brilliantly captures the birth, middle age and --some would say --death of SoHo, a portrait of an entire way of life through a single building."

--Christopher Gray, Streetscapes columnist for the New York Times.

Praise for Boardwalk Stories:

"These interlinked tales of love and betrayal, of big dreams run aground, hew to a single seaside stripe -- a splintering boardwalk --yet in those narrow bounds encompass a world as complex and irreducible as now lost to us: the paranoid, innocent, zealous, ambivalent, atomic-bomb-shadowed world of McCarthy's America....So closely observed and so naturally told they feel less written than confided."

--Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise and American Woman