Tell Me True Writing my memoir began as a way of correcting the public record The false story that my white mother and stepfather adopted me needed to be replaced by the truth... Author: June Cross - Category: Writing
Pressure Points (An Excerpt From Secret Daughter By June Cross) My stepfather Larry Storch’s success as a character actor hinged on the indeterminate ethnicity of his face: his broad forehead, defined cheekbones, slanted eyes, and that thicket of dark hair allowed him to play a range an Asian, a Mexican, or someone from the Mediterranean... Author: June Cross - Category: Short Stories
In Pharaoh's Land I would enter Radcliffe College in September 1971, but graduate from Harvard College four years later... Author: June Cross - Category: Short Stories
The Bad Mother For reporters, the bad mother is a staple of feature story writing I've interviewed some bad mothers in my time: there was the one who prostituted herself in front of her children; one who pimped her own twelve year-old daughter; the one who beat her son so badly that the sheet rock was marked with the impressions from his head hitting the wall... Author: June Cross - Category: Family Concerns