Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 410
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-4930-7067-1 • Paperback • March 2023 • $24.95 • (£18.99)
Stephen Birmingham (1929–2015) was an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham’s work focuses on the upper class in America. He’s written about the African American elite in Certain People and the prominent Jewish society in "Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: The Story of America’s Sephardic Elite, and "The Rest of Us": The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews. His work also encompasses several novels including The Auerbach Will, The LeBaron Secret, Shades of Fortune, and The Rothman Scandal, and other nonfiction titles such as California Rich, The Grandes Dames, and Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address.
Praise for "Our Crowd"
“You don’t have to live on Manhattan’s West Side to appreciate this gossipy history of New York’s oldest apartment building. . . . A lively story.” —Kirkus Reviews
“When it comes to the folkways of the rich, the powerful, and the privileged, Stephen Birmingham knows what he’s talking about.” —Los Angeles Times
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While the territory has been well mined, Mr. Birmingham has discoveries guaranteed to surprise… Trenchant observations permeate this book. The way they take your breath away makes this the literary equivalent of a cardiac arrest.
— New York Times Book Review
Throughout there is the larger immigrant experience—the flight from Europe, the tenement lives, the move into better neighborhoods and suburbia—told with a narrative flair certain to win many readers.
— Publishers Weekly