Bruce Frankel:  

CLASS OF 1967
Long beach, NY

Bruce's Story

Life I've had a great life so far ... as a father, a reporter and a writer. I hope to see many of you at the 40th reunion this summer. A co-writer of the best-selling Life book, World War II: History's Greatest Conflict, published in 2001 by Little, Brown, I am currently working on a new book of non-fiction. I have been senior writer and editor at People magazine and was, for many years, the New York-based national reporter for USA Today, where I covered majors trials of the 1980s and 1990s and specialized in reporting on organized crime and terrorism. I have also worked as a columnist, general assignment and investigative reporter for Gannett Newspapers in Westchester, NY. I entered journalism a little late, several years after graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in 1971 and after working, waiting tables, carrying bricks and cement, and counseling adolescents on a psychiatric ward. I left full-time journalism five years ago to study poetry and earn an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Since graduation in 2003, I have taught writing at SUNY Purchase and worked on various writing projects. I have also edit...Expand for more
ed a book on high school dropouts, reported by the teen editors of Children's Express, and published poetry in numerous journals. The Los Angeles Review will soon publish a poem, titled, "Paraphrasing Vivan Leigh." After a long marriage, my wife, Liz, and I are separated. I live in New York and have three sons, who I hold as my proudest accomplishment. Alex, 24, is a singer, composer and musician, soon to begin recording his second album for a major label and currently working as a personal recording assistant to Moby; Zach, 20, is a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin/Madison; and Isaiah, 12, is a joyful, brace-wearing seventh grader in Manhattan, known as Ricky-uh-o! in his MySpace performance piece. His skills as a basketball and soccer player have... uh, almost nothing to do with the coaching I've done over the years. I ty to stay in shape with irregular visits to the gym, but have gained few pounds -- somewhere under 100 or so -- since wrestling in the 112 lb weight class at Long Beach. For those who knew my brother, Geoff, Class of 1966: he is alive and well and slightly heavier, too, than he once was.
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