Author Fern Schumer Chapman is an accomplished journalist and former reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Forbes, whose work also has appeared in The Forward, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she has taught magazine writing and other seminars at both Northwestern and Lake Forest College.
A National Jewish Book Awards finalist, Motherland - Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past, was published by Viking/Penguin (2000). Feature film rights are optioned and the book was named a Barnes & Noble "Discover New Great Writers" title. Motherland also was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and has been published in Germany and the Netherlands.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Is It Night or Day? captures Edith's immigration experience to America. Edith (Fern's mother) was part of a small, little-known American rescue operation that saved about 1,000 children from the Nazis. Edith came to this country without her parents when she was only 12 years old.
