Girls of Tender Age

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In her new memoir, mystery writer Mary-Ann Tirone Smith describes the real-life murder of her 11-year-old classmate in 1953. Both girls were living in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut, when a serial killer struck the neighborhood. In Girls of Tender Age, Ms. Smith describes the impact this violence had on her.

» Read an excerpt of Girls of Tender Age in the Reading Room

Events: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, January 18th at 7pm
Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side (Broadway & 82nd St)

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