Posts Tagged ‘bell bridge books’

Pump Up Your Book Chats with Phyllis Schieber

The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber’s life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants.  In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known as “Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson.” She graduated from high school at sixteen, earned a B.A. in English from Herbert H. Lehman College, an M.A. in Literature from New York University, and later an M.S. as a Developmental Specialist from Yeshiva University. She lives in Westchester County where she spends her days creating new stories and teaching writing. She is married
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The Manicurist Virtual Book Publicity Tour August, September & October 2011

Join Phyllis Schieber, author of the literary fiction novel, The Manicurist (Bell Bridge Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere August 1 – September 30 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Phyllis Schieber The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber’s life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants.  In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known as “Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson.” She graduated from high school at sixteen, earned a B.A. in English from Herbert H.
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