Alice steinbach author biography
Alice Steinbach was an American journalist and author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her feature for The Baltimore Sun A Boy of Unusual Vision, which describes the experience of a blind child..
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
A few years ago, as I was planning a yearlong sabbatical in Europe, it occurred to me to wonder: Just what exactly do people do when they're traveling?
Sure, there's sightseeing, museums, walking tours.
Alice Steinbach, whose work at the Baltimore Sun was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in , has been a freelance writer since
But what else? How do they spend all the hours?
Once my trip started, I quickly realized what they do: They think. They muse, they ponder, they let their minds wander through tangled back alleys of thought like a tourist lost amid the cobbled streets of a medieval city center.
But there can't be many people whose travel-feuled meditations are as enjoyable to share as Alice Steinbach's. Her memoir, WITHOUT RESERVATIONS, is a gracefully meandering chronicle of her travels in Europe and her search for a new definition of herself.
Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and single mother, realized one day when she was "a certain age" that she'd allowed herself to be defined exclusively in