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Who's Who
As
a kid, KELLI ANDERSON
dreamed of being a cartoonist. That made her a natural
choice to profile
syndicated 'toon artist Hilary Price. "It turned out Hilary
always wanted to be a writer," says Anderson, '84, who lives
in Sonoma, Calif. "We were eager to ask each other a lot of
questions." As a journalist, Anderson has made a career of
being inquisitive. Since 1989 she's been a writer for
Sports Illustrated. Earlier this year she took a
leave from SI to help relaunch Sports Illustrated
for Women. "I'm in it more for the writing than for the
sports," she says. "It's as good a genre as there is for
creating drama."
Not
many magazine writers submit their articles with an
annotated appendix. But BERNARD
BUTCHER, '64, MA '95, isn't your average scribe.
His 25-year banking career made him a fanatic for detail.
After selling his firm to a Dutch bank in 1994, Butcher
returned to Stanford for a master's degree in history.
"Anybody who has a chance to go back to college at 50 is
very lucky," he says. Since 1996 he's been teaching at a
girls' prep school in San Francisco. His story
on the intricate deal that brought the Soviet Communist
Party archives to the Hoover Institution is his third for
Stanford. "The challenge," he says, "was finding a
story line that would capture the imagination -- and then
sneaking in the historical significance."
As
it happens, photographer AMANDA
LANE has a thing for Ming dynasty furniture. So
when she walked into novelist Vikram Seth's West London
flat, she knew they had something in common. "He won an
award, and instead of spending the money on a car or
something, he decided to buy a chair and desk," says Lane,
32, who lives in East London. Her portrait
of Seth in his centuries-old chair captures his
contemplative side. Since earning a master's degree from the
Royal College of Arts in 1994, Lane has specialized in the
nearly lost techniques of 19th-century printmaking. Her
photographs have appeared in Vogue and the Sunday
Times of London.
Hard
at work on a rewrite of his latest article,
ADAM STRASSBERG was
feeling more than the usual pressure. His wife was due to go
into labor any day. "I had to get the whole rewrite done
before the baby came," he says. "It was a tougher deadline
than usual." Strassberg, MD '99, finished revising his
account of his night as a paramedic in time to assist in the
March 3 birth of Zachary. That experience will undoubtedly
lead to another "mythopoetic familiar essay" -- a form
Strassberg, 30, has been fiddling with since he began
writing as a senior at Harvard. He starts a psychiatry
residency at Stanford this summer. Eventually he hopes to
combine careers as a writer and physician.
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