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| - Lee Stringer is a writer who lived unhoused with a substance use disorder in New York City from the early eighties until the mid-nineties. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. He currently lives in Mamaroneck, New York. He is the author of Sleepaway School and Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street. Stringer also took part in a discussion on writing with Kurt Vonnegut for a book entitled Like Shaking Hands With God. Stringer was a winner of the Doe Fund 2nd Annual Murray Kempton Award in 1998, and Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book that same year. Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Stree (en)
- Ли Стрингер — американский писатель, бывший бездомный и крэк-наркоман. Стрингер жил на улицах Нью-Йорка с начала 80-х до середины 90-х годов. Бывший редактор и обозреватель уличной газеты Street News. Его эссе и статьи печатались в различных изданиях, в том числе , The New York Times, Newsday и др. Широкую известность автору принёс его роман Grand Central Winter о его выживании на улицах, опубликованный в 1998 году, другой напечатанной книгой стала Sleepaway School. В 2000 году Ли Стрингер в соавторстве с Куртом Воннегутом издали книгу «». (ru)
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| - Lee Stringer is a writer who lived unhoused with a substance use disorder in New York City from the early eighties until the mid-nineties. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. He currently lives in Mamaroneck, New York. He is the author of Sleepaway School and Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street. Stringer also took part in a discussion on writing with Kurt Vonnegut for a book entitled Like Shaking Hands With God. Stringer was a winner of the Doe Fund 2nd Annual Murray Kempton Award in 1998, and Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book that same year. Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street was also nominated for a Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award. He discovered his talent when he was searching for an instrument with which to push the filters in his crack stem from one end to the other, so that he could smoke the remaining resin. What he found was a pencil, which he subsequently also used to write a short story called "No place to call home" which he then sent to "Street News". Eventually writing won out over drugs as a passion, Stringer checked himself into a Project Renewal, Inc. homeless shelter and treatment center, and with their help was able to kick his addiction. His first published book chronicling his years on the street. "Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street," (Seven Stories Press, 1997) made the top ten recommended book lists of both USA Today and the New York Times, went on to publication 18 languages and won a Washington Irving Award, and a Murray Kenton Award. He received the Lannan Foundation residency fellowship in 2005. (en)
- Ли Стрингер — американский писатель, бывший бездомный и крэк-наркоман. Стрингер жил на улицах Нью-Йорка с начала 80-х до середины 90-х годов. Бывший редактор и обозреватель уличной газеты Street News. Его эссе и статьи печатались в различных изданиях, в том числе , The New York Times, Newsday и др. Широкую известность автору принёс его роман Grand Central Winter о его выживании на улицах, опубликованный в 1998 году, другой напечатанной книгой стала Sleepaway School. В 2000 году Ли Стрингер в соавторстве с Куртом Воннегутом издали книгу «». Ещё будучи бездомным, Стрингер написал рассказ No Place to Call Home (рус. Нет места называемого домом), который он отправил в новую уличную газету Street News. Газета опубликовала рассказ, бездомного и впоследствии сотрудничала со Стрингером, который уже выбравшись из нищеты и избавившить от наркозависимости, отправлял в Street News свои эссе и статьи. Зависимость от крэка ему удалось победить с помощью Project Renewal, Inc., лечебного центра и приюта для бездомных. Опубликованный в 1998 году роман Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street принёс известность Стрингеру и попал в 10 рекомендованных книг года по версии USA Today, а The New York Times опубликовал положительную принял книгу. В 2005 году Стрингер был удостоен награды от , престижной литературной премии. (ru)
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