

Stephanie Schorow
Stephanie Schorow is a journalist, a veteran writing instructor, and the author of nine nonfiction books on topics such as fires, crime, drinking, and sexual politics. Her first novel, Cat Dreaming: A Story of Friendships and Second Chances will be published in November 2023 by Small Town Girl Publishing She has been an editor, reporter and/or freelance correspondent for the Boston Herald, the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, and newspapers in Missouri, Idaho, Utah, and Connecticut. Her most recent nonfiction book is A Boston Harbor Island Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891 (History Press). Her previous books include The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy (2022, History Press); The Great Boston Fire: The Inferno that Nearly Incinerated the City (2022, Globe Pequot); Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood (2017, Union Park Press); Drinking Boston: A History of the City and its Sprits (2012, Union Park Press), and The Crime of the Century: How the Brink’s Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston (2007, Commonwealth Editions). With co-author Beverly Ford, she wrote The Boston Mob Guide (2011, History Press.)