"...An introductory plunge into more profound racial consciousness..." - Kirkus Reviews
"Not only a fascinating read; it's also a model of engaged scholarship."
- Jewish Book Council
- Jewish Book Council
"Eisenfeld writes about Shenandoah the way Annie Proulx writes about Wyoming or Edward Abbey about the deserts of the Southwest: pristine, unsentimental, eloquent prose." -Kirkus Reviews
Writer. History lover. Memory keeper.
Sue Eisenfeld is the author of Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South as well as Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal. She is also a contributing author in The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War.
She writes about her passions: history, travel, culture, hiking, science/nature, relationships, and life. Her work has been listed five times among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in The Best American Essays and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Forward, Civil War Times, Washingtonian, The Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Still: The Journal, Blue Lyra Review, Hunger Mountain, Virginia Living, and many other publications. Born in Philadelphia, she is a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia. She teaches creative-nonfiction writing in the Johns Hopkins University MA in Science Writing program.
Learn more about her books. Read her other writing. See photos from her Dixie research travel. Contact her or buy her books.
She writes about her passions: history, travel, culture, hiking, science/nature, relationships, and life. Her work has been listed five times among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in The Best American Essays and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Forward, Civil War Times, Washingtonian, The Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Still: The Journal, Blue Lyra Review, Hunger Mountain, Virginia Living, and many other publications. Born in Philadelphia, she is a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia. She teaches creative-nonfiction writing in the Johns Hopkins University MA in Science Writing program.
Learn more about her books. Read her other writing. See photos from her Dixie research travel. Contact her or buy her books.