[Alumni-chat] Peg Bracken, Antioch '40, author of best seller I HATE TO COOK BOOK writes about old age as a comedy experience!

[Freda B Birnbaum]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, YAZZ ALLEN wrote:

>  Peg Bracken, Antioch College, Ohio '40 is about 90 years old these days 
> if she's still with us (I hope she is....I was in email contact with her 
> about 5 years ago, and she described a relatively recent stop-by visit 
> to Antioch in Ohio trip she made and her reactions to how things had 
> changed since her pre-WWII times as a teen at Antoch).  When she and I 
> were in contact, she lived in Oregon with her husband.

[etc.]

Sad to say, she died within the last few months; I saw an obituary in the 
New York Times.

I love her stuff.  She has a fabulously funny one called _The I Hate to 
Cook Almanack: Peg Bracken's Book of Days_, circa 1976.  I know the 
feeling of being kicked out of the library for laughing too hard!

The book on old age seems to be out of print -- we need to bring it back!

Freda Bluestone Birnbaum, '65