Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Sturz and Herbert Sturz, whom I telephoned shortly after I woke up one morning in the summer of 1990 with the idea of writing about foster care. They referred me to William J. Grinker, the commissioner of New York City’s Human Resources Administration from 1986 to 1989. Bill Grinker introduced me to Poul Jensen, the assistant executive director of St. Christopher-Ottilie, the largest private foster-care agency in New York State. “If you’re willing to take a ten-hour van ride from Brooklyn to Pennsylvania and back tomorrow, I promise you a subject,” Poul said to me on September 17, 1990. Previous searches for book subjects had taken many months. Those words sounded auspicious. Before a van filled with St. Christopher-Ottilie child-care and social workers had even passed through New Jersey, en route to a school for delinquent boys in Pennsylvania, two of my van mates, Charlotte Bowman and Ron Underwood, convinced me that Crystal Taylor would be a perfect subject. They said she was articulate, would enjoy being written about, and would stay the course: I had told them the story I proposed to write would take a year.
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