Stephanie Schorow

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Stephanie Schorow is a Boston-area reporter and writer. For 12 years she toiled as a features editor and ink-stained scribe for the Boston Herald until she struck out on her own as a freelance writer in 2004. Her articles now regularly appear in the Boston Globe and other publications.

She is the author of the just-published nonfiction book, The Crime of the Century: How the Brink's Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston. Her other books include Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston and The Cocoanut Grove Fire. All three were published by Commonwealth Editions.

Ms. Schorow was the editor of Boston's Fire Trail: A Walk Through the City's Fire and Firefighting History, published in 2007. She also contributed research and copy to Great New England Storms of the 20th Century.

She is currently working on a book on the Boston Harbor Islands, East of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands, which is scheduled to be published this summer by The History Press.

She has worked for the Boston office of the Associated Press, the TAB newspaper chain and newspapers in Missouri, Utah and Connecticut. She is an avid hiker and backpacker, clay artist and amateur photographer.


Selected Works

Nonfiction
The Crime of the Century: How the Brink's Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston
The inside story of the infamous crime that captivated Boston.
Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston
Schorow has successfully captured the excitement and drama of firefighting in Boston.
The Cocoanut Grove Fire
The horrendous tragedy that shaped fire history.



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