The Strangers Next Door

by Edith Iglauer

Edith Iglauer has been a journalist for four decades, working for The New Yorker , Harper's , The Atlantic Monthly and other publications. This book is a lively retrospective of her writings, from the 1940s when she covered Eleanor Roosevelt's press conferences, through the 1960s when she was present at the founding of Canada's first Inuit co-operative society, through the 1970s and 1980s when she fell in love with a west coast Canadian fishermen and made her new home in his part of the world.

The collection is a tribute to an internationally respected journalist who approaches each new subject, a "stranger next door," with intelligence, humour and a rampant curiosity.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Edith Iglauer attended Wellesley College and the School of Journalism at Columbia University. She covered WWII as a correspondent and later became a staff writer for the New Yorker, where she mostly wrote about Canada. Her experiences led her to write several nonfiction books, including a memoir about her marriage to a salmon fisherman, which was turned into a TV movie.