Trivia

Has a daughter Josephine.

Member of the Julia Spruill Prize Committee, 1999 (Southern Association for Women's Historians).

Member of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, 1996 (Southern Association for Women's Historians).

Co-founder and co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2006.

Member of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award Committee, 1992.

Member of PEN, Secretary of PEN Executive Board, 1986-1989.

Member of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee, AHA, 2005-6.

Member of the Authors' Guild.

She graduated from Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

Her parents worked in the publishing industry.

Received the Whiting Travel Fellowship in 2012.

From 2007-2008 she was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.

In 2006 she was a Doshisha Lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Honored with the Presidential Fellow from Columbia (1985-88).

Given the Mary Ellen Shimke Award by Wellesley College (1986-1987).

Named a Mellon Fellow by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia (1988-1990).

Received the Lane Cooper Award from Columbia (1987-1988).

Recipient of the Boston Globe Annual Award for Louisa May Alcott (1977).

Was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College (1995-1996).

Received the Miner D. Crary Award from Amherst College (2000-2001).

Taught at Amherst College and Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction.