Stephanie Schorow
Stephanie Schorow, a Boston-based book author and teacher, has spent more than 40 years working as a reporter and editor in news papers, large and small, around the country. That experience became the backdrop for her novel, Cat Dreaming: A Story of Friendship and Second Chances, a tale of four women, their lovers and their cats.
The novel won a 2024 Muse Medallion for Fiction from the Cat Writers’ Association.
Stephanie 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. She is the author or co-author of nine popular nonfiction books on topics in Boston history, including the tragic 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, the city’s notorious sexual playground dubbed the Combat Zone, Boston’s infamous mobsters, and the spectacular 1950 Brink’s robbery. She was the project leader on A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal, a nonfiction account of four women who journeyed to a remote island in Boston Harbor
in 1891 for a literary adventure. She has taught writing and editing courses at Lasell University, Regis College, Lesley University, Newbury College and Emerson College. She currently teaches media writing at Boston University. She has appeared in three PBS-aired documentaries discussing her research and is in demand as a speaker and workshop presenter.
