by Deb Aronson | Jan 30, 2018 | Profiles
When he was nine years old, Howard Ingber got a chemistry set for Christmas. By the time of the first explosion, Ingber was hooked. “Explosions, smoke, gunpowder, sulfur. The kit showed you how to make nitrocellulose (guncotton),” Ingber remembers. “Today you’d have...
by Deb Aronson | Mar 15, 2016 | Profiles
If Marilyn Scudder Barnwell was a super hero she would be the Compassionator. As for her fatal flaw (because every hero has one), perhaps it would be a humility so deep that it renders her short-sighted about her own accomplishments. The evidence? When Dinah Volk,...
by Deb Aronson | Dec 1, 2015 | Profiles
Alison Bechdel seems a bit nonplussed about her success. The recent Tony Award-winner, also author of the long-running cartoon Dykes to Watch Out For and two graphic novel memoirs, Fun Home (2006) and Are You My Mother? (2012), has earned the kind of recognition not...
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