Author Lee Stringer lived, homeless and crack-addicted, on the streets of 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. Stringer also took part in a discussion on writing with Kurt Vonnegut for a book entitled Like Shaking Hands With God. Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for presentation through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... This article is about the U.S publication. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Newsday is a daily tabloid-size newspaper which primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area. ... Mamaroneck, New York may refer to two places in New York: The Town of Mamaroneck, a town in Westchester County The Village of Mamaroneck, a village partially within the town This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ...
Books
Lee Stringer (1998). Grand Central Winter. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-888363-57-6
Lee Stringer, Kurt Vonnegut (2000). Like Shaking Hands With God. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-002-X
Lee Stringer (2004). Sleepaway School. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-478-5
LeeStringer was surreptitiously living in the office of the street newspaper he edited when he was offered his first publishing contract.
Stringer visited the Sydney Writer's Festival in May to talk about his second memoir Sleepaway School, the tale of his boyhood sojourn at 'a kind of a reform school'.
Lee: I remember being flown out to do a TV show, in the midst of this period where I couldn't walk down the street of a major city without someone recognising me. I got into the hotel room, and I suddenly felt this awesome depression.
Stringer climbed out of his hole and off the streets through his writing, which began after he began carrying around a pencil that he used to clean his crack pipe.
Stringer is now striving for the writer's life like his idols James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Tennessee Williams -- he is working on his next project.
LeeStringer is a changing man walking thorough a changing city.
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