Sharon Grimberg is the author of The Complete and Totally True Statement of Sparrow C. Jones as well as a documentary film writer and director whose work for PBS includes The Busing Battleground, The Circus and We Shall Remain. She has won three Primetime Emmys and two Writers Guild Award nominations. She grew up in Singapore and England but currently calls Boston home where she lives with her husband and occasionally with her two college-aged children. Her daughter might come back more often if they had a dog.

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