![]() ![]() I had a high IQ, so the excuse was that I was beyond my lessons and that’s why I couldn’t read. How did you go from reading to playwriting to penning a memoir? The big problem was that I was dyslexic, and when I was growing up, dyslexic wasn’t a term anybody used. When she died, she had piles and piles of this magazine. When I went to high school, she went back to high school and got her diploma, and when I went to college, she went to college and got her degree and then her master’s. I don’t know how she ended up in the library, but she volunteered in the school. How did your mother become a school librarian? My mother had a great love of learning but had to drop out of school to help earn money for her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() He spoke with American Libraries about his librarian mother, what he’s learned from playwriting, and his recent $2.5 million gift to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts campus at Lincoln Center, which will fund a new laboratory space. I Was Better Last Night (Knopf, March 1) traces his legendary Broadway career as well as his LGBTQ+ activism and some of the key relationships in what he calls his “small circle of a thousand friends.” When the coronavirus first arrived in New York City in early 2020 and theaters went dark, actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein-a self-described hermit, though some would say he’s synonymous with Manhattan’s Midtown theater district-retreated to his home in Connecticut and started work on a memoir. ![]()
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