Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series Bulletin

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About the Author

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Mary Helen Fein (1943 - ) was born in Riverdale, New York. Her father was the first Jewish boy to attend Georgia Tech. In Georgia, he met Mary Helen's mother, a beautiful 16 year old Atlanta girl. Upon his graduation, they married and moved to New York where Mary Helen grew up. She has a B.A. in English Literature from Temple University, an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and for two years, she studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Today she lives in Northern California where she designs websites, writes, paints and teaches Insight Meditation.

Her first novel, Loss of Deliverance, was published in 2014. It is a novel about a young woman's adventures in the hippy drug trade of the 1960s and 1970s.

Her second novel, Stitching A Life, was published in 2020 by She Writes Press, publisher of books by, for, and about women. It is the story of her Jewish grandmother Helen Breakstone Fein. Helen immigrated to New York in 1900 i at the age of 16. She came from Lithuania, a part of Russia at that time. The entire family was in danger from racism and persecution. Helen came through Ellis Island and settled in the Lower East Side of New York. The novel explores the challenges that faced immigrants at that time, and that still face immigrants today.

Mary Helen's third book is a memoir entitled Spark.

You can visit her website at www.maryhelenfein.com.

Purchase or View Stitching a Life: An Immigration Story on Amazon.com: Click Here!

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