Abigail Pogrebin

Abigail Pogrebin
Born (1965-05-17) May 17, 1965
New York, NY, U.S.
Occupation Writer

Abigail Pogrebin (born May 17, 1965) is an American writer.

Family & Early Life

She is a daughter of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the co-founder of Ms. Magazine, and Bert Pogrebin, a management-side labor lawyer, and is the identical twin sister of New York Times journalist Robin Pogrebin.

As a teenager, Pogrebin worked as an actor and performer, and at age 16 starred as Evelyn in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along.[1]

Career

She is the author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, published in 2017,[2] and the 2005 book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish.[3] Her second book, One and the Same: My Life As an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular,[4] was published in October 2009. Her bestselling Amazon Kindle Single, Showstopper,[5] recounts her teenage adventure in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim’s flop, Merrily We Roll Along.[6] Formerly a producer for Charlie Rose at PBS and Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes, she moderates her own interview series at the JCC in Manhattan and has been President of Central Synagogue from 2015 to present (her tenure ends in 2018).

Notes

  1. ↑ "Abby Pogrebin". The Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew". Fig Tree Books. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  3. ↑ "Stars of David", Google Books
  4. ↑ "One and the Same", Google Books
  5. ↑ Pogrebin, Abigail. Showstopper.
  6. ↑ Price, Lonny (Director) (2016). Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Motion picture).
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