Stephanie Schorow

Stephanie Schorow is a long-time Boston-area reporter and writer. If she's not working on a book project, she's hammering away at articles for a host of publications and institutions, including the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Lifescript.com, MIT, Harvard and many others. Her expertise includes covering news, general features, science and health issues, lifestyle trends, pop culture, technology and social issues. For 12 years, she was a lifestyles editor and writer at the Boston Herald. She reviews restaurants for Globe North and music reviews for the Chicago Blues Guide. She also writes and takes photographs for travel features.

Ms. Schorow is the author of four books and the co-author of another. She wrote the popular nonfiction account of a famous heist, The Crime of the Century: How the Brink's Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston, published in February 2008 by Commonwealth Editions.

Her book on the Boston Harbor Islands, East of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands, was published in July 2008 by The History Press. Filled with photos and personal stories, the book is a well-researched but humorous and insightful look at the 34 islands that dot Boston Harbor.

Her other books include Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston and The Cocoanut Grove Fire, both published by Commmonwealth Editions.

Ms. Schorow was the editor of Boston's Fire Trail: A Walk Through the City's Fire and Firefighting History (2007). She contributed research and copy to two books published by the Boston Globe: Great New England Storms of the 20th Century and Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life.

Stephanie has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a masters degree from New York University. She worked at newspapers around the country until moving to Boston in 1989 to work for the Associated Press and discovered Boston was her spiritual home. For 12 years she was the Assistant Lifestyles Editor for the Boston Herald, where she supervised freelance writers, wrote features and contributed a weekly technology column. In 2005, she launched her own successful free-lance writing business. For three years, Stephanie wrote two weekly columns for the Globe's Sidekick section and the "Behind the Scenes" column for Globe Northwest and contributed music reviews, celebrity interviews and other features.

Stephanie has written travel stories about safaris in South Africa, beach combing in Mozambique, tracking elusive jaguars in Belize, carnival in Mexico, chocolate tasting in Paris, and trying the pot bars in Amsterdam. She was a Boston correspondent for the 2007 Moon Metro Boston guidebook, focusing on historical sites, museums and buildings. From 2004 to 2006, she wrote travel stories on assignment from the Boston Herald and was a Boston correspondent for Fodor’s travel guidebooks from 1997 to 2000. She is an avid hiker and backpacker, clay artist and photographer.

Stephanie frequently speak at libraries and other community centers in the Greater Boston area, including appearances at the Old South Meeting House and three appearances at the Massachusetts Superior Court, most recently in April 2009 for the court’s 150th anniversary celebration. She has appeared as an expert in documentaries about fire including "Damrell's Fire," first broadcast in 2006, a look at the Great Boston Fire of 1872; and in a segment on the Cocoanut Grove fire for the "Modern Marvels" series on the History Channel broadcast in 2004. She has also appeared three times on "Greater Boston" with Emily Rooney on WGBH-TV.
She is currently working on her next book.

She is a board member of the Boston Fire Historical Society, an organization dedicated to preserving Boston's fire history. She is also on the board of the Volunteers and Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands, an advocacy and volunteer group. A clay potter working at the Mudflat Studio in Somerville, she also teaches pottery at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and sell her work through the Mudflat Studio's annual sales.