Life With an Accent --- Marilyn Gottlieb -- Author Talk

Life with an Accent -- Marilyn Gottlieb

Author Talk, Saturday October 26th
1-2:30 PM

Finding freedom after WWII is just the beginning of Frank Levy’s journey from Berlin to the Middle East to America. By the time he is 13 Frank is a pro at starting over, shifting languages and cultures, even changing his name in a life molded by events beyond his control. Yet no matter where he goes, he is always marked by his accent.
In America he earns a degree in mechanical engineering, has a family and succeeds at a career in textile machinery. When Frank has it all together, fate intervenes and he must reinvent himself again. Along the way he wins an international award for sustainable technology. But with every effort he makes, a person, an experience or a story emerges from the past proving that the history any immigrant lives through matters.

Marilyn Gottlieb started her writing career as a columnist in Dan’s Papers on Long Island, New York. Since 1993 she has been president of The Crescendo Group, a small full-service public relations firm. Prior to starting her own company, Ms. Gottlieb was senior vice president, director of public relations for Lintas, a $1.8 billion advertising agency. Previously she was with Ogilvy & Mather and the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

A past member of the Board of Advertising Women of New York and an inductee into the YWCA’s prestigious Academy of Women Achievers, she taught Public Relations at the New School University for 18 years. She has served on the board of Advertising Women of New York and is a member of the YWCA’s prestigious Academy of Women Achievers, New York’s tribute to professional and managerial women. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and has been a docent at the Museum of Tolerance in Manhattan.

Ms. Gottlieb attended Skidmore College for two years and went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree and first Master’s degree from New York University. In 2012 Ms. Gottlieb received an MFA in Writing and Literature from Stony Brook Southampton.

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