Paul Grondahl

PAUL GRONDAHL Award-winning author, journalist, teacher Member of the Authors Guild

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"Writers have a little holy light within, like a pilot light which fear is always blowing out. When a writer brings a manuscript fresh from the making, at the moment of greatest vulnerability, that's the moment for friends to help get the little holy light lit again."
-- Cynthia Ozick

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Adjunct professor, University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences. Fall, 2008.

Writer-in-Residence. Albany Academy and Albany Academy For Girls. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Rensselaerville Institute. Minds-On Workshops. 1995-2008.

New Visions. Public Communications. 1996-2008.

To inquire about teaching or speaking, contact the author.

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New York State Writers Institute

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(July, 2009)

Greetings. I hope you're enjoying your summer, despite the rain.

We're just back from an amazing family vacation in Aruba for my 50th birthday on June 9. It was a fantastic trip for one and all.

I also attended an excellent journalism conference in Reno last month on addiction studies that will help me with a series I'm working on about that topic for the newspaper.

A book I helped write as Spencer Standish's collaborator came out this month. It's titled, "From Myles to Spencer: An Informal Standish Family Memoir," and will be available in local bookstores soon.

The other big news is that my daughter, Caroline, turned 14 on June 30 and last month she graduated from 8th grade at Farnsworth Middle School and will be entering her freshman year at Guilderland High School in the fall. Both she and my son, Sam, who just finished his freshman year at Williams College, worked hard and did very well academically this school year. I'm so proud of them both.

Life is good.

Read a newspaper. Read a book. And savor summer's pleasures.

Paul

Click here to order the paperback edition of
"Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma."
SUNY Press. September, 2007.

ASSORTED LITERARY PIECES

-- Interview with historian David Hackett Fisher. Oct. 26, 2008. Times Union.

-- Interview with New York Times war correspondent Dexter Filkins. Oct. 16, 2008. Times Union.

-- Interview with author Jim Kunstler. March 16, 2008. Times Union.

-- Interview with author Russell Banks. Feb. 10, 2008. Times Union.