The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2002.Īuthor under the pseudonym S. Kosovo: Background to a War, Anthem Press (London, England), 2000. Intellectuals and Assassins: Writings at the End of Soviet Communism, Anthem Press (London, England), 2000. Munis, Editorial Balance (Barcelona, Spain), 1994.įrom West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind, Free Press ( New York, NY), 1998. Incidentes de la Vida de Benjamin Peret con Anotaciones Sobre el Comunismo de G. Heaven's Descent, Transition (San Francisco, CA), 1990.Ī Strange Silence: The Emergence of Democracy in Nicaragua, ICS Press (San Francisco, CA), 1992. Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M., Transaction Books ( New Brunswick, NJ), 1988. (Editor) The Transition from Authoritarianism to Democracy in the Hispanic World, ICS Press (San Francisco, CA), 1986. Hidden Locks, Radical America (Cambridge, MA), 1972.Ī Sleepwalkers Guide to San Francisco, La Santa Espina (San Francisco, CA), 1983.īrotherhood of the Sea: A History of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1885-1985, Transaction Books ( New Brunswick, NJ), 1986. (Translator) Antinarcissus, self-published (San Francisco, CA), 1969. AWARDS, HONORS:Įarhart Foundation fellowship, 19 Olin Foundation fellowship, 1988. The Newspaper Guild, Dictionary Society of North America, Historians of American Communism, Korea America Friendship Society. Active in Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks and member of board of Albanian Catholic Institute, University of San Francisco frequent lecturer and commentator at conferences and on television and radio. Institute of Peace, research associate, 1988. Department of State, consultant, 1987-88 U.S. City of San Francisco (magazine), San Francisco, CA, staff writer, 1975 Re/Search Publications, San Francisco, staff writer, 1977-81 The Alarm, San Francisco, editor, 1980-83 Pacific Shipper Weekly, San Francisco, senior editor, 1981-84 Sailors Union of the Pacific, San Francisco, historian, 1983-86 Institute for Contemporary Studies, San Francisco, senior editor and fellow, 1984-89 San Francisco Chronicle, staff writer and op-ed editor, 1989. Office-c/o Author Mail, Doubleday Books, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Politics: "Conservative anti-fascist." Religion: "Jewish by affection, Catholic by association, Muslim by sympathy, Buddhist by nature." Hobbies and other interests: Linguistics, non-European art. Education: Attended City College of San Francisco, 1970-72 University of California-Berkeley, 1972-73, 1976, and 1989 and University of London, 1985. I know this is vague advice, but there isn’t a clear career track to becoming a songwriter like there is for becoming a lawyer or a stockbroker.Born September 9, 1948, in Columbus, OH son of Horace Osman (a bookseller) and Mayme Eileene (a social service employee maiden name, McKinney) Schwartz married Mary Uhran, March, 1969 (divorced, 1974) married Rebecca Rae Long (a filmmaker), Machildren: Matthew. 3) Begin trying to meet people who are in the business through workshops, parties, networking, etc. 2) Get yourself somewhere where people are in the business you want to be in–if it’s theatre, New York or maybe Chicago if it’s film or TV, Los Angeles if it’s the music business, Los Angeles or Nashville. Have work that you can show–a demo tape or CD, a sheaf of lyrics, a draft of a show–something. The lessons contained within this story are: 1) Write. Eventually, I met people who were interested and could help me. Once I had graduated and was pursuing writing for the theatre as a profession, I went to New York and began trying to get people to hear my work (specifically, I had written the show PIPPIN while I was in college and was showing that around). In my case, I had always wanted to be a composer I began being my own lyricist in college, because I couldn’t find people to write lyrics for my songs whose work I felt strongly enough about. Stephen Schwartz: I think everyone gets started slightly differently, but in the end, all the stories are essentially the same.
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