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Barbara Scheiber is an award-winning author of books and short fiction. 
Her novel, We'll Go to Coney Island, was recently published by Sowilo Press.


Hear Barbara talk about the life stories behind her novel, We'll Go to Coney Island, with Scott Simon, host of NPR Weekend Edition:

Barbara Scheiber on NPR Weekend Edition

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Read about Barbara Scheiber and her novel in the Washington Post, in this feature story by Richard Leiby:

DOUBLE EXPOSURE
In a Walker Evans photograph, author Barbara Scheiber saw her family history

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On Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb:
Interview with Barbara Scheiber


Women's Memoirs interviews Barbara Scheiber

Spurred by a 1928 Walker Evans Photo, Barbara Scheiber Publishes Her 1st Novel at Age 92

- The Great Gray Bridge, veteran editor Philip Turner's blog on books and publishing


For more coverage of Barbara Scheiber and We'll Go to Coney Island, check News.

Available from Sowilo Press
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More Praise for 
We'll Go to Coney Island: 

The stories of Barbara Scheiber come from a special place. They are the work of a wisdom figure, a woman who understands from the inside out the beautiful imperfections of family life. Yet they are rendered with rare vision that sees everything as if the experiences were brand new.
  - Roy Peter Clark, Vice President and Senior 
Scholar at the Poynter Institute and author of 
The Glamour of Grammar and Writing Tools

We'll Go To Coney island is a rarity--a multi-generational story that is short and fast-moving. It's the story of a Jewish immigrant family in New York in the early 1900s, and its descendants. Scheiber writes a lean, muscular prose and tells the story in quick scenes, skipping deftly back and forth in time. It captures the joys and heartbreaks of family life in all its forms. An unexpected delight.

- Peter Carlson, Author of  Junius and Albert's 
Adventures in the Confederacy and K Blows Top

The writing in this book is a profoundly skillful meal
of poetic wisdom and vivid flavors. Ideals and hard,
breathtaking realities nourish the reader in an absorbing and thought-provoking story of bittersweet lives.

- Kate Horsley, Author of Confessions of 
a Pagan Nun and Black Elk in Paris

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