After longhand, she composes her next draft on a first-generation Smith Corona electric typewriter. Then she enters her words on computer. In an interview about her career, she revealed that she stopped writing poetry at forty and favored writing fiction to essays. Proud of her Jewish heritage, much of her fiction explored the challenges of Jews struggling to maintain their heritage in a Gentile world. The story, an O.Henry Prize winner, is filled with sadness and truth.
All writings are acts of courage .