Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller 'Up the Down Staircase'

... "When we were walking together side by side on the street," she said during a 2011 speech at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., "and I'm a child of 3 holding his big hand, he would say, 'The stronger you hold my hand, the better I'll write.'a S" ...



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