DR. SHEILA SCHWARTZ
Professor emeritus, SUNY

Noted author, educator, lecturer, and consultant. 

Dr. Schwartz's most recent publication is a comprehensive biography of "F. Scott Fitzgerald", Haus Publishers, London,  England, 2011. It will be available in England in September 2011 and in the United States in December 2011.

Dr. Schwartz has published nineteen books in a variety of genres: adult fiction, adult  non-fiction, young adult fiction, young adult non-fiction, anthologies, and  college methods books in literature, writing and the humanities.One of her Young Adult novels, "Like Mother Like Me," was made into a CNS film, LIKE MOM, LIKE ME, which also starred Linda Lavin. She has taught writing at every age level and to populations as diverse as Elderhostels and inmates in correctional facilities. In her work for the Writes' Digest Criticism Service she has edited manuscripts and prepared them for publication.

She is available for book signings, wriiting workshops, and lecturing on writing and literature. She has taught writing courses for the Semester at Sea (SAS) on ships going around the world. She was a professor for forty years at the State University College (SUNY)  New Paltz.

Her newest novel, The Little Terrorist, is an amazingly prescient, prophetic picture of the terrible events of September 11. This wildly romantic, tragic and joyous love story is set against the background of contemporary terrorism. It is a story of survival and the courage to rise above tragedy and build a new nuclear family out of the ashes and rubble of the past. An engrossing, sensual and emotional read!

Read the First Chapter of The Little Terrorist.

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.