About me
Alison Owings, trained as a journalist, wrote for network and logal television news before pursuing oral histories of stereotyped people. Her first book Frauen / German Women Recall the Third Reich, was a NYTimes Notable Book of the Year. It was followed by Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray, then Indian Voices / Listening to Native Americans. Mayor of the Tenderloin is her latest work, this time examining the stereotype of homelessness, primarily through the life of one person.