Shepard, an Italian Catholic whose wife’s father was Jewish, spent more than two years conducting exhaustive research for his latest book, culminating in a trip to Warsaw.
Written from a child’s simple, direct point of view, Jim Shepard's "The Book of Aron" has won several awards, the most recent being Hadassah Magazine’s annual literary award.
Dreisinger talks about prison reform and race issues in America today as well as how her Modern Orthodox Jewish family life influenced her career choices.