Becoming a Writer
I became a writer by accident. During my first position, at Johns Hopkins University, I was responsible for creating and editing an academic journal. Through editing others, I became enamored of language and the craft of writing. In my early academic career, I wrote both scholarly and trade books, and articles concerning inequalities of power, gender, race, and class. See my Scholarly page references.
At Sonoma State University, I taught history undergrads and grad students. My specialties included the Gilded Age-Progressive Era, the Great Depression, Research Methods, Family History and Environmental History. When my students demanded more material on women's history, I shifted my research to biographies. I was fascinated by the lives of women connected to noted men. Living near Jack London State Historic Park, I discovered London's second wife Charmian Kittredge. Then I examined several generations of women in two prominent families: Vanderbilt and Rockefeller.
Returning to Jack London, I explored all the women connected to him: mother, stepsister, wives, friends.
I co-edit london.sonoma.edu, based at Sonoma State University, called Jack London Online, with Roy Tennant, noted digital librarian.
Find a copies of my London scholarship on my London Articles page.
My first fiction book is Slanderley: Love and Death in Cornwall. I wrote this spoof in my twenties but expanded and published it only recently. It is solely to entertain. http://tiny.cc/li4vdy
I've been tracking my Czech/Hungarian ancestry for many years in an attempt to understand my extended family better. More on this on the Gypsy page. I drafted a history but my not publish.
E-mail is the best way to contact me: stasz@sonoma.edu
At Sonoma State University, I taught history undergrads and grad students. My specialties included the Gilded Age-Progressive Era, the Great Depression, Research Methods, Family History and Environmental History. When my students demanded more material on women's history, I shifted my research to biographies. I was fascinated by the lives of women connected to noted men. Living near Jack London State Historic Park, I discovered London's second wife Charmian Kittredge. Then I examined several generations of women in two prominent families: Vanderbilt and Rockefeller.
Returning to Jack London, I explored all the women connected to him: mother, stepsister, wives, friends.
I co-edit london.sonoma.edu, based at Sonoma State University, called Jack London Online, with Roy Tennant, noted digital librarian.
Find a copies of my London scholarship on my London Articles page.
My first fiction book is Slanderley: Love and Death in Cornwall. I wrote this spoof in my twenties but expanded and published it only recently. It is solely to entertain. http://tiny.cc/li4vdy
I've been tracking my Czech/Hungarian ancestry for many years in an attempt to understand my extended family better. More on this on the Gypsy page. I drafted a history but my not publish.
E-mail is the best way to contact me: stasz@sonoma.edu
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