Rose Fischer Author

Jerry Rose published feature articles and photographs in Time, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, New Republic, The Reporter, and other news venues. He authored two books: Reported to be Alive (Grant Wolfkill, Simon and Schuster, 1965) and Face of Anguish (Free Asia Press, 1965), a book of his photographs. He had an MA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and also published fiction in literary magazines. He is deceased and this memoir was created with the help of his sister and co-writer, Lucy Rose Fischer. Lucy Rose Fischer, an award-winning Minnesota author, artist, and social scientist, is the author of five previous books: Linked Lives: Adult Daughters and Their Mothers (Harper and Row, 1986, translated into German); Older Minnesotans (Wilder Foundation, 1989); Older Volunteers (Sage, 1993, NSFRE Research Prize); I’m New at Being Old (Temuna Press, 2010, Independent Publishers Gold Award and Midwest Book Award); and Grow Old With Me (Temuna Press, 2019), as well as more than 100 professional research articles. She has a PhD in sociology and an MA in Asian Studies. She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.