Contributors to Always Too Soon

Rosanna Arquette currently stars in the television series What About Brian. Arquette has appeared in more than seventy films, including Pulp Fiction and Desperately Seeking Susan. She has also directed and produced two highly acclaimed documentaries, Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying. Her mother died of cancer when Arquette was thirty-eight; her father died of complications from a liver transplant when she was forty-one.

Yogi Berra is a National Baseball Hall of Fame legend. Berra is a fifteen-time All-Star and has won more world championships than any other baseball player in history. In all, he played in fourteen World Series. Berra's mother died of diabetes when he was thirty-four; he was thirty-six when his father passed away from heart trouble.
www.yogiberramuseum.org

Dana Buchman is a fashion designer. Buchman's line of clothing is one of the most broadly distributed designer labels for women in the country. She is also the author of A Special Education – the story of her daughter Charlotte's lifelong struggle with severe learning disabilities. Buchman's father died of a stroke when she was thirty; she was forty-three when her mother died of a heart attack.
www.danabuchman.com

Rosanne Cash is a Grammy-award-winning singer and songwriter. Cash has recorded nearly a dozen albums including her most recent smash hit, Black Cadillac. Her other records include Interiors, The Wheel and 10 Song Demo. Her father, music legend Johnny Cash, died from complications of diabetes when she was forty-eight; she was fifty when her mother died from an infection following surgery for lung cancer.
www.rosannecash.com

Carmela Ciuraru is a writer, editor, and author of seven poetry anthologies, including First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated & Inspired Them and Solitude: Poems. Ciuraru is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, More, Spin, and other publications and is currently working on a nonfiction book. Her mother battled breast cancer, but died suddenly of an aneurysm when Ciuraru was sixteen; her father died of colon cancer when she was twenty-one.

Terrance Dean is the founder of Men's Empowerment, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering the lives of men of color. Dean is also the author of the best-selling book, Reclaim Your Power!: A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing and Inspiration for Men of Color. Dean's father was shot to death when he was twelve; his mother died of AIDS when he was twenty-one.

Hope Edelman is the author of the The New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters and its sister title, Letters from Motherless Daughters. Edelman's latest book is called Motherless Mothers. Besides being a writer, she also lectures extensively on this subject. Edelman's mother died from breast cancer when she was seventeen; her father passed away, also from cancer, when she was forty.
www.hopeedelman.com

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the The New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A contributing writer for Time magazine, she also writes frequently for The New York Times, Harper's, and The Progressive. Ehrenreich was thirty-five when her mother died from a likely suicide; her father died years later from Alzheimer's disease.
www.barbaraehrenreich.com

Geraldine Ferraro is the first woman selected as a vice presidential candidate on a national party ticket. Ferraro has also been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives – serving New York's 9^th Congressional District in Queens for three terms. She is currently a senior managing director and chair of the Public Affairs practice of The Global Consulting Group. Ferraro's father died of a heart attack when she was eight; she was fifty-four when her mother died of emphysema.

Dennis Franz is an actor best known for his four-time Emmy-award-winning role as Detective Andy Sipowicz on the hit television show NYPD Blue. He also had a recurring role in the TV series Hill Street Blues. Franz has appeared in numerous films, including City of Angels and Die Hard 2: Die Harder. At the age of forty, Franz lost his father to cancer and his mother just months later to a stroke.

Kate Carlson Furer is the owner of Physicians Weight Loss Center in Plantation, Florida. Prior to opening this business, Furer worked in sales and purchasing in the Garment District in New York City. She was twenty-nine when she lost her mom to cancer; her father suffered from Parkinson's disease and died in his sleep when Furer was thirty.

Jeff Gelman is a freelance journalist. Gelman's work has been published in various newspapers, including the Philadelphia City Paper, The Morning Call, and the Delaware County Daily Times. During his ten-year career as a newspaper reporter, he has won numerous awards. Gelman's parents were killed by a drunk driver when he was fourteen.

Mariel Hemingway is an actress and author and the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway made her silver-screen debut in the movie Lipstick, and her work in Woody Allen's Manhattan earned her an Oscar nomination. Her books include Finding My Balance and Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out: Every Woman's Guide to Real Beauty, Renewed Energy and Radiant Health. Hemingway was twenty-eight when her mother died of lung disease; her father died from complications following heart bypass surgery when she was thirty-nine.

Ice-T is an actor and Grammy-award-winning singer currently starring as Detective Fin on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Ice-T is credited with inventing gangster rap and was an honoree in VH1's 2005 Hip Hop Honors. He is also a sought-after public speaker – lecturing on college campuses across the country about the dangers facing young adults today. Ice-T's mother died of a heart attack when he was seven; his father succumbed to a heart attack when he was eleven.
www.icet.com

Shelby Lynne is a country and R& B singer who won a Grammy award for Best New Artist in 2001. Her latest album, Suit Yourself, was released to critical acclaim. Her prior albums include Identity Crisis, Love, Shelby, and I am Shelby Lynne. She was seventeen when her father fatally shot her mother before turning the gun on himself.
www.shelbylynne.com

Catheryne Ilkovic Morgan is a Holocaust survivor. Morgan's parents were both killed in Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp, when she was fourteen. She has been a volunteer for more than ten years at the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, a division of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and was recently awarded the Volunteer of the Year medal.

Brian O'Hara is a sales assistant at ABC Television Network. O'Hara was twelve when both of his parents and his sister were killed aboard TWA flight 800. The Paris-bound flight crashed in the waters off Long Island, New York on July 17, 1996. O'Hara graduated from Boston College in 2005.

Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of four novels -- Suburbanistas, Younger, Babes in Captivity, and The Man I Should Have Married -- and the coauthor of several best-selling baby-naming guides, including Beyond Jennifer & Jason. Satran is a contributing editor for Parenting and a columnist for Glamour; her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, More, and Redbook. Her mother died when Satran was thirty from complications related to a lifetime of severe rheumatoid arthritis; her father passed away due to emphysema when she was thirty-eight.
www.pamelaredmondsatran.com

Sergeant Michael Treanor is assigned to the Plans and Operations unit of the 45^th Infantry Brigade, Oklahoma Army National Guard. Sergeant Treanor has been in the military, in various divisions, since 1980. His parents were both killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, when he was thirty-one.

Valerie Webb is a senior in high school. Her mother died of a heart attack when she was ten; her father, a Port Authority police officer, was killed one year later when he responded to the September 11^th terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City.

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