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Barbara Donsky

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February 20

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Winner Silver Medal Readers' Favorite 2016

Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards 2016

Born in the South Bronx, two words long synonymous with urban decay, Barbara Donsky, the author of Veronica's Grave, went on to discover a passion for all things French. Go figure!

A Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Hunter College, she earned an MS from C. W. Post, Long Island University and an EdD from Hofstra University.

Publications include a doctoral dissertation Trends in Written Composition in Elementary Schools in the United States, 1890 -1960. Articles in educational journals including "Writing as Praxis" and "Trends in Elementary Writing Instruction". And a short story--"The Trouble with Harry"--published in the Naples Review in Florida.

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Barbara Donsky Staring at a computer screen, waiting for the muse to show up, does not do it for me. Instead this flaneuse takes to ambling the streets of New York, …moreStaring at a computer screen, waiting for the muse to show up, does not do it for me. Instead this flaneuse takes to ambling the streets of New York, dropping in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and stopping afterwards for coffee at the Nectar at Madison and 82nd. Then, enveloped by the chitchat of others, I take out a pen and scribble a few notes. . (less)
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Artsy Demarchelier and Elegant Morini: There Goes the Neighborhood

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On a rainy day, the streets sloppy underfoot and an ashen sky heavy overhead, there’s nothing ‘Desperately Seeking Paris’ finds more enjoyable than slogging around town. For it’s then that the city, wrapped in a gauzy grey cocoon, moves to a slower beat, giving you time to think. It’s a time when people mosey around more and scurry about less. When ambulances with the c

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Audrey Hepburn”
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“Paris is always a good idea.”
Audrey Hepburn

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility”
eleanor roosevelt

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
Warsan Shire

“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
Warsan Shire

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”
Robert Frost

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