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Barbara Lehman Smith

Goodreads Author

Born

in Boston, The United States

Website

http:///www.barbaralehmansmith.com

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography, Women & Gender Studies

Influences

Caroline Knapp, Anne Lamott, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald ...more

Member Since

December 2010

URL

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After inadvertently rescuing the artist’s scrapbooks from an incinerator, Barbara Lehman Smith first wrote about Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones for Pennsylvania Heritage magazine in 1995. As a feature writer who specializes in health, history, and the arts, she continued on to other projects but kept coming back to the Sparhawk-Jones story. “It seemed every few weeks I learned new information from range of sources—one day an email from a relative in Russia, another day from an art curator in Michigan—and began following one thread to the next. Those who care about Sparhawk-Jones’s work and life and influences are deeply passionate, and that motivated me to weave those threads back together as best I could with this biography,” says Ms. Smith of E ...more