Jamie Pastor Bolnick

Selected Works

Non-fiction

Living at the Edge of the World
"A shocking and sometimes mordantly funny narrative of struggle and survival….."

--Publisher's Weekly

Winnie: My Life in the Institution
"The remarkable book based on a mildly retarded orphan's own account of her life in an institution."

--Redbook Magazine

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New, revised and expanded paperback edition available now!

Now available for the first time in paperback -- revised, expanded, and redesigned

In addition to the complete text of the first edition and new introductory material, this new edition contains:

- Facsimiles of pages from Winnie's own notebook
- Excerpts from interviews with two of Winnie's social workers

The cover is a full-color facsimile of Winnie's own notebook, with the title in Winnie's handwriting and a photo of Winnie as a teenager.

Winnie: My Life in the Institution has been translated into Dutch, and was excerpted in Redbook magazine and New York Newsday Sunday Magazine. In 1988 it was made into an NBC-TV Movie of the Week starring Meredith Baxter and David Morse.

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Now in paperback

Living at the Edge of the World is now available in paperback.

Living at the Edge of the World has been translated into Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese, and was excerpted in Interview magazine and The New York Daily News.