Erica Eisdorfer

Erica Eisdorfer was born in Durham, North Carolina. She and her two brothers spent a lot of time in trees. Due to birth order and bossiness, she was always the admiral, the head chef, the teacher, the mayor and the president in the tree game of the moment. Finally her brothers realized that they didn't have to take it anymore and went off to play with their trucks, leaving her alone forever. It was then that she began to love reading.

She attended public schools in Durham, NC in the sixties. She recalls the smell of curing tobacco at recess. She recalls her parents hosting a "flower power" cocktail party for their friends. She recalls her second grade teacher who, when they were recently united by a social networking site, told her that when she (the teacher) had applied for the job at Hope Valley School, she (the teacher) was asked two questions, to wit: a) are you on a mission? b) are you taking birth control pills?

For the past 25 years or so, Erica Eisdorfer has managed the Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC-Chapel Hill. Luckily for her, the gigantic Davis Library is mere steps from her office. Often, she takes books home for research on wet nursing, eclipses, baseball, women rabbis of the 70's, utopian communities...whatever project she's working on at the moment.

She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina with her husband and two daughters.

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