Background
Bienen, Leigh Buchanan was born on April 24, 1938 in Berkeley, California, United States. Daughter of Norman Sharpe Buchanan and Janet Buchanan (Saniter) Arnold.
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The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories
(In her first book of fiction, Bienen moves knowledgeably ...)
In her first book of fiction, Bienen moves knowledgeably and engagingly from African tales to domestic comedy. The Left-Handed Marriage, Leigh Buchanan Bienen's debut collection of fiction, ranges widely in subject matter, tone, and locale, from legal drama to domestic comedy, from Kampala and Shanghai to Trenton, New Jersey. In her award-winning story "My Life As a West African Gray Parrot," the domestic comedy is filtered through the consciousness of an aging parrot. In "He Was a Big Boy, Still Is," a dramatic monologue by a white public defender, counseling the mother of a young, mentally impaired black defendant, Bienen's characteristic mix of comedy and pathos sets the tone. A near-fatal accident to a circus performer, in "The Circus Comes to Kampala," transforms two mocking spectators into highly capable, compassionate adults. In "Technician," an ordinary, unemployed, young Trenton man is recruited as a state executioner. Here and throughout, Bienen's fiction is intelligent, knowledgeable, ironic, compassionate, and totally believable.
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Crimes Of The Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson
(In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensationa...)
In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensational cases of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. Loeb, the Scottsboro "boys," Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Alger Hiss, and O.J. Simpson, highlighting significant lessons about criminal behavior and the administration of criminal justice. Each case study details the crime, the police investigation, and the court proceedings, profiles the major players, and examines the outcome and aftermath of the trial. The authors untangle the perplexities surrounding the cases and illuminate the many mysteries that remain unsolved today. These celebrated trials reveal issues of overzealous prosecution, sloppy police work, judicial bias, race, class, and ethnic struggles, and the role of wealth in securing a competent defense. They also show how the temper of the times and frenzied media coverage heightened the intensity of drama in the cases.
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Leigh Buchanan Buchanan Bienen
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Education
Bachelor, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1960. Master of Arts, University Iowa, Iowa City, 1963. Juris Doctor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 1975.
Career
Bar: New Jersey 1975, United States District Court New Jersey 1975, Pennsylvania 1977, New York 1982, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1982, District of Columbia 1983. Research attorney Center for Rape Concern, Philadelphia, 1975-1976. Law associate Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-1977.
Lecturer University of Pennsylvania School Law, Philadelphia, 1981. Assistant deputy public defender Department Public Advocate, Trenton, New Jersey, 1977-1991. Administrative director Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School, 1991-1994.
Senior lecturer School Law Northwestern University, 1995. Lecturer Princeton University, 1977, 82, 84, 87, 91-94.
Works
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The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories
(In her first book of fiction, Bienen moves knowledgeably ...)
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Crimes Of The Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson
(In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensationa...)
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The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories
Membership
Director Chicago History Homicide Project, since 2000. Director website homicide.northwestern.edu. Member Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee, since 2005.
Board directors New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union, 1982—1992. Vice president Lookingglass Theatre, since 2003. Member of American Bar Association (project on sex offender sentencing 1984-1985).
Connections
Married Henry S Bienen, April 28, 1961. Children: Laura, Claire, Leslie.
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Religion
Presbyterian
Awards
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Recipient fiction prize O'HenryPrize Stories 1983. American Philosophical Society grantee, 1981-1982. Fellow MacDowell Colony, 1979, 82, YADDO, 1984, Blue Mountain Center, 1986-1987. Dean's scholar Cornell Univercity. Wallace Eljabar Fund grantee, 1974. Fiction grantee New Jersey Council on the Arts, 1986-1987. Board of directors New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union, 1982-1992;board directors Women's Rights Law Reporter, since 1977.Recipient fiction prize O'HenryPrize Stories 1983. American Philosophical Society grantee, 1981-1982. Fellow MacDowell Colony, 1979, 82, YADDO, 1984, Blue Mountain Center, 1986-1987.
Dean's scholar Cornell Univercity. Wallace Eljabar Fund grantee, 1974. Fiction grantee New Jersey Council on the Arts, 1986-1987.
Board of directors New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union, 1982-1992;board directors Women's Rights Law Reporter, since 1977.