Aging in America: The Years Ahead
Ed Kashi (Photographer) was born in New York City and received a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University. Kashi's first major documentary project, a study of the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, garnered him a NEA grant. His book, When The Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds was the result of his cover story for National Geographic. Kashi has received numerous awards, including the World Press and Pictures of the Year competitions. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Smithsonian, Newsweek, Natural History, U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Granta, Aperture, and American Photo, among others. Kashi lives in San Francisco; Julie Winokur's (Essays and Interviews) last book with Kashi is Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured. She also co-edited We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. This work led to her involvement in the second annual Media & Democracy Congress in 1997. A freelance writer and editor, Winokur's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal's Encore Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Travel & Leisure, Publishers Weekly, American Photo, and Salon.com, among others. Winokur lives in San Francisco; Doris Roberts (Foreword) has won two Emmy Awards for her role as Raymond's meddlesome mother in "Everybody Loves Raymond," and an additional Emmy for "St. Elsewhere." She has starred in films and on Broadway, receiving an Outer Critic's Circle Award. Her memoir, Are You Hungry, Dear?, will be released this year by St. Martin's Press. Roberts lives in Los Angeles; Dr. Robert Butler (Preface) won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Why Survive? Being Old in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) in 1976. He is the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health and founding chairman of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He is Professor of Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and President and CEO of the International Longevity Center, which he established in 1990. Dr. Butler is based in New York.