Education
Alumni Writers at Franklin & Marshall College: Marc Straus ’65, February 23, 2022
Marc J. Straus gave a craft talk and a reading at Franklin & Marshall College’s Writers House this past February. Marc J. Straus is the author of the memoir One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York. He is an oncologist and a former Chairman of Oncology and Professor of Medicine.…
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My forthcoming memoir, One Legged-Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies and Coming of Age in 1950s New York, recounts the years I was 10 to 12 years old, narrated by the boy. My father was an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Ukraine at age 15, impoverished and orphaned. He went to work and, in his twenties,…
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