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Lewis B. Sckolnick
The Ledge House
130 Rattlesnake Gutter Road, Suite 1000, Leverett, MA 01054-9726 U.S.A.
Telephone 1. 413. 367. 2853 ● [email protected] ● @rectorpress
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I am a poet, novelist, publisher and researcher. I live at The Ledges in Leverett, Massachusetts. I was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. I have a B.Sc. in English from the State University of New York at New Paltz. I have done graduate work in Creative Writing (SUNY Potsdam), the Philosophy of Art (New School), English Literature (SUNY New Paltz) the Philosophy of Religion (Harvard Divinity), Russian Literature (Brandeis), Neurobiology (MBL), Psychiatry and the Law (Harvard Law), Peripheral Neurology (Harvard Medical), Human Neuroanatomy (MIT), Roman Law (Harvard Law) and English (UMASS). I have studied under Paul Engel, James Dickey, Anais Nin, Robert Phelps, Harvey Cox, Alan Dershowitz, Mark Hallett and Walle Nauta. I have interned in Washington D.C. with two prominent private organizations. In the first as an analyst on National Healthcare Planning under Ralph Nader and in the second as a researcher on Defense Analysis and the Private Sector under Reuben McCornack. I did the discovery for a major trial in two hours, which the seven lawyers had been unable to do in six months. I have worked in the Neurobiology Laboratory of William Adelman at MBL and the Neurobiology Laboratory of Daniel Alkon at NIH at MBL. I have worked on one presidential campaign and one congressional campaign. I have attended the Asian Scholars Conference, Washington, D.C., the Science and Education Conference, Detroit, Michigan and the Science and Religion Conference, Turku, Finland. I am a member of the Boston Athenaeum, the Renaissance Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Frost Library at Amherst College. I have designed my modern cottage in the style of a Russian dacha. I have served on the Board of Health. I have visited my Native-American friends at the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Reservation near Lawtons in Western New York State twice. I have traveled and camped in Western Europe and Eastern Europe four times. I have visited Russia six times. I have traveled and camped in Central Asia five times, with some time spent in Southern Siberia. I have appeared on national television in the Former Soviet Union three times. I took part in The International Peace Walk, Kazakhstan. I was a member of the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade and the Clamshell Alliance. I have lived for extended periods of time in Rouen, France, Bucharest, Romania, Tampere, Finland and Almaty, Kazakhstan. I have been to the far northeast of Norway at Kirkenes, which looks out upon the Barents Sea before going above 70 North. I have worked in the vineyards of Western New York State and in the apple orchards of Southern Kazakhstan. I have written seven novels the first of which is entitled The World Before September. My poetry has been published in Kenya, Kazakhstan and the USA and a number of volumes can be seen at Poet’s House in Manhattan. I have received grants from the PEN American Center and the Massachusetts Cultural Council
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I have visited Eretz Yisroel twice. I have worked as a carpenter on a kibbutz. I have recorded an album of Hasidic Nigguns. I have studied at Yeshiva in Grenoble, France, Milano, Italy and Bnei Brak, Israel and at Morristown, New Jersey. I have met the chief rabbis of Bucharest, Romania, Trieste, Italy and Helsinki, Finland. The Lubavicher Rebbe personally gave me a place of honor at one of his Saturday evening presentations.

Lewis B. Sckolnick The Ledge House 130 Rattlesnake Gutter Road, Suite 1000, Leverett, MA 01054-9726 U.S.A. Telephone 1. 413. 367. 2853 ● [email protected] ● @rectorpress ******* WWW.Bookmention.Com Send us your books and we will showcase them to the world. ******* I am a poet, novelist, publisher and researcher. I live at The Ledges in Leverett, Massachusetts. I was born in Framingham, Mas... More