DR. SHEILA SCHWARTZ
Professor emeritus, SUNY

Noted author, educator, lecturer, and consultant. 

She is available for speeches, workshops Readings, Book signings. She was employed by the Semester at Sea (SAS), teaching writing courses to college juniors and seniors on a ship going around the world.

Dr. Schwartz's most recent non-fiction work is a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Fitzgerald" Haus Publications, Cadogan Square, London, 2012.

Dr. Schwartz's most recent novel is The Little Terrorist. She engaged in research for this book in Gaza, Israel, Athens, Masada, and FBI Headquarters in Washington, D. C. The subject is a little girl trained for the intifada. Her story recounts events of terrorism from the Athens Airport Massacre to the World Trade Center destruction. Among the familiar names in this book are Osama bin Laden, Mohammed Atta, Ali Abu Kamal, Adnan Yunis, and Marwan Kreeshat.

Read the First Chapter of The Little Terrorist.

Dr. Schwartz has published nineteen books including: novels, anthologies, adult fiction, young adult fiction, adult non-fiction and college methods books. One of her Young Adult novels, Like Mother, Like Me was produced as a CBS film, starring Linda Lavin and Kristy McNichol. She has taught writing at every age level to populations as diverse as Elderhostels, inmates in Correctional Facilities, and writing workshops. In her work for the Writers' Digest Criticism Service she edited manuscripts and prepared them for publication. She taught writing for eleven years at Rio Caliente in Mexico.

Like Mother, Like Me (iUniverse, 2006) - This is novel about a college professor's daughter's embarrassment when he runs off with a student, leaving his wife and daughter devastated. Jen, the daughter, becomes so involved with her mother's problems that she is unable to deal with her own. Just in time, Jen meets Peter,and is ready to give up mothering and be a teenager herself for a change. A tender, heartwarming story about adolescence--a mother's and a daughter's --forgiveness, and growing up together.

Growing Up Guilty (iUniverse, 2006) is the story of a young girl's coming of age at the onset of World War II. Susan finds it difficult to understand life, caught between a hostile mother and a passive father. It is also difficult for her to understand the political forces swirling around her.Her life changes when she meets Sol in high school. At his home, Susan finds a different world of laughter, intellect and love. Susan's story is in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor but her coming of age problems are universal for all teenagers struggling to find themselves.

The Hollywood Writers’ Wars, the story of the Hollywood Ten and their lawyers. The story of the battle to form the Screen Writer’s Guild is for the first time told fully and in riveting detail, based on diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and hundreds of interviews with members of the Hollywood community. Brilliantly recreated is the political turmoil that shattered the Hollywood community through the 1930’s and into the 40’s—leading to the House Un-American Activity Committee and the blacklist

The Solid Gold Circle the story of a damaged girl who vows to marry a man rich and powerful enough to protect her from the harsher realities of life. After she marries Jeff, her dreams become reality. Their lives change when they join YPO, the Young Presidents Organization, the Solid Gold Circle of the title. Then, having everything, Ellen begins to find that this is not the life or the man she wants.