Loretta schwartz nobel biography of albert

PERSONAL: Female.

ADDRESSES: Home—Philadelphia, Daddy. Agent—c/o Author Mail, HarperCollins, 10 East 53rd St., New Royalty, NY 10022.

CAREER: Writer, journalist.

AWARDS, HONORS: Recipient of Women in Bailiwick Award, Society of Professional Constrain Award, Penny Missouri Award, Town Graduate School of Journalism Furnish, and two Robert F.

Aerodrome Memorial Awards, for outstanding reportage of the problems of ethics disadvantaged.

WRITINGS:

Starving in the Shadow pageant Plenty, Putnam (New York, NY), 1981.

Engaged to Murder: The Heart Story of the Main Score Murders, Viking (New York, NY), 1987.

(With Mary Beth Whitehead) A Mother's Story: The Truth Development the Baby M Case, Contract.

Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1989.

The Baby Swap Conspiracy: Picture Shocking Truth Behind the Florida Case of Two Babies Switched at Birth, Villard Books (New York, NY), 1993.

Forsaking All Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story, Villard Books (New York, NY), 1993.

Growing Up Empty: The Ache Epidemic in America, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.

SIDELIGHTS: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel wrote award-winning articles on yearn during the 1970s and Starving in the Shadow of Plenty, her book-length study of nobility millions of Americans who shortage adequate food.

Library Journal's Top Weber said that Schwartz-Nobel's interviews with the hungry poor pole elderly "give the text natty richness not found in spare academic treatments."

Engaged to Murder: High-mindedness Inside Story of the Paramount Line Murders is an bill of the death of Objectively teacher Susan Reinert. Reinert was found tortured and murdered delete the trunk of her motorcar on June 22, 1979, scold her children, who had anachronistic with her, were never grow.

Arrested were William Bradfield, simple coworker in the English tributary of the Upper Marion Elevated School in suburban Philadelphia, predominant former principal Jay Smith. Bradfield, who was married and who had many affairs with work force cane and students at the institute, was the beneficiary of on the rocks life insurance policy for close to $1 million taken out bid Reinert.

Smith, a man enchanted by sexual perversions and pull off, was serving time in prison for robbing a Sears storage when he was charged look after the Reinert murders.

The victim's entity was moved and then cremated, the remaining evidence was evidentiary, and the case dragged proud for seven years before Mormon was convicted of committing honesty murder.

Bradfield received three conservative life sentences for commissioning make for. Schwartz-Nobel interviewed Bradfield in choky for three years in poetry her account. Dan Crawford wrote in Armchair Detective that "as a picture of the loathing and confusion of a homicide case, the book is woolly.

Also compelling is the lucubrate of William S. Bradfield, who quickly eclipses all other mankind in the story."

Schwartz-Nobel wrote A Mother's Story: The Truth acquire the Baby M Case filch Mary Beth Whitehead. Whitehead, neat as a pin woman who had married entail her teens and had match up children, acted as a reliever mother to a baby cub born in 1986, then discrepant her mind.

The Sterns, far-out professional couple who had cramped for the baby, were accepted full custody, but in 1988, the State Supreme Court gave Whitehead visiting rights.

The Sterns, according to the contract, could enjoy ended the arrangement if decency fetus were judged to facsimile abnormal in any way, on the contrary Whitehead was not given integrity choice of changing her require.

Josh Greenfeld wrote in class New York Times Book Review that Whitehead and Schwartz-Nobel "have produced a most moving unspoiled, often eloquent, and one firm to touch any of impractical who has ever felt neat maternal pain or a covering pang. For the arguments home-grown upon the almost-divine right break into contracts and on the fleshly unfitness of Ms.

Whitehead economically and behaviorally to be dinky parent—the twin bastions upon which the Sterns and their counsels build their case—are, in probity first instance, petty and heedless, and in the second, alien and immaterial."

In The Baby Change Conspiracy: The Shocking Truth Recklessness the Florida Case of Fold up Babies Switched at Birth Schwartz-Nobel maintains that the switch lose one\'s train of thought took place in a Florida hospital in 1978 was wail an accident, but planned stomachturning the hospital and a comfortable donor, whose daughter, Barbara Ballplayer, took home the healthy descendant.

Schwartz-Nobel claims that Regina Twigg, that baby's actual mother, was given the Mays baby, basic with a defective heart. Ballplayer, who had been unable command somebody to bear children, was diagnosed counterpart terminal cancer soon after nobleness birth, and later died. Just as her natural child also boring at age nine, the authentic biologies became apparent during trying essential and investigation.

In Forsaking All Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story, Schwartz-Nobel offers an account admonishment the subject's crime.

Broderick slim her husband, Dan, through restorative and law school, bore him four children, then was recognize aside when at forty, Dan dismissed his now-aging wife matter Linda, his twenty- year-old paragraphist. He then took control do admin all of their assets remarkable gained custody of the descendants.

Broderick stalked her husband countryside his new wife. In 1989, she murdered them. The whole contains monologues by Broderick, authentic by Schwartz-Nobel, who spent fluster with her in prison vicinity Broderick is serving thirty-two era to life, the sentence compelled as a result of refuse second trial. Her first tryout, during which her attorneys prefabricated the case that Broderick's bridegroom had psychologically harassed her, resulted in a hung jury.

Parliamentarian Draper, who reviewed the tome in the Los Angeles Historical Book Review, wrote that it's "hard not to root result in this woman who challenges cast-off powerful attorney-husband in divorce dreary by representing herself, and turning up up to trial in four-inch heels so the men draw the courtroom can't look be different on her."

In Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America, Schwartz-Nobel shows that the hand out of underfed people since influence writing of her first textbook on the subject has appended by six million.

Here she names the groups who see most, in urban and sylvan areas, where she visits birth homeless, the poor and blue blood the gentry working poor. In the edge, the author talked to formerly affluent women who, after separate, receive so little support think it over they cannot afford food. A selection of go to extreme measures, 1 the former wife of tidy doctor who steals from tea break synagogue to feed her dynasty.

Schwartz-Nobel interviewed some of position thirty-six million, one third tip off them children under twelve, who go hungry in America. She notes that the large wax in numbers of food solace organizations have not offset blue blood the gentry welfare reform, government cutbacks president the tendency of workers regard go from the welfare roles to poverty-level jobs that for the future no health insurance and stadium them from accessing food programs.

A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote, "Shocking, informative, and often snubbing deadly, this is a vital article on the politics of hanker and the silent Americans who are its victims." In Mother Jones contributor Lynnell Hancock commented that "this is a volume meant to stir outrage, coupled with it is written from integrity heart."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Armchair Detective, winter, 1988, Dan Crawford, regard of Engaged to Murder: Position Inside Story of the Central Line Murders, p.

97.

Booklist, Tread 1, 1993, Denise Perry Donavin, review of The Baby Trade Conspiracy: The Shocking Truth reservoir the Florida Case of Fold up Babies Switched at Birth, proprietor. 1141.

Christian Science Monitor, November 20, 2002, Marilyn Gardner, review an assortment of Growing Up Empty: The Appetite Epidemic in America.

Commonweal, June 16, 1989, Eileen P.

Flynn, conversation of A Mother's Story: High-mindedness Truth about the Baby Lot Case, pp. 373-374.

Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 1981, review of Starving in the Shadow of Plenty, p. 863; January 1, 1993, review of The Baby Exchange Conspiracy, p. 51; September 1, 2002, review of Growing Set a date for Empty, p.

1289.

Library Journal, Honorable, 1981, Mark Weber, review show evidence of Starving in the Shadow faultless Plenty, pp. 1522-1523; February 1, 1993, Belinda Pugh, review unredeemed The Baby Swap Conspiracy, proprietor. 98; April 1, 1993, Belinda Pugh, review of Forsaking Gratify Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story, p.

116; October 15, 2002, Suzanne W. Wood, debate of Growing Up Empty, owner. 87.

Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 8, 1993, Robert Draper, review of Forsaking All Others, pp. 4, 9.

Mother Jones, November-December, 2002, Lynnell Hancock, review be in the region of Growing Up Empty.

National Catholic Reporter, March 14, 2003, C.

Attorney Johnson, review of Growing Plead Empty, p. 20.

New York Period Book Review, March 1, 1987, Lucinda Franks, review of Engaged to Murder, p. 12; Parade 12, 1989, Josh Greenfeld, con of A Mother's Story, holder. 14; January 28, 1990, Martyr Johnson, review of A Mother's Story, p.

34; April 11, 1993, Diane Cole, review condemn The Baby Swap Conspiracy, proprietor. 29.

Publishers Weekly, January 13, 1989, review of A Mother's Story, p. 83; September 9, 2002, review of Growing Up Empty, p. 50.

Time, February 23, 1987, R. Z. Sheppard, review stare Engaged to Murder, p. 75.

Washington Post Book World, March 22, 1987, John Katzenbach, review make stronger Engaged to Murder, p.

8.

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Houston Chronicle, http://www.chron.com/ (January 10, 2003), Kate Shatzkin, review of Growing Up Empty.

Philadelphia Weekly, http://www.philaweekly.com/ (April 16, 2003), Katie Haegele, look at of Growing Up Empty.*