Ms. Rothenberg took art lessons as a child but harbored no serious hopes of becoming a professional. She was a high-school cheerleader and a “party girl” in college, she said. After graduation she wandered for a couple of years, and then, as she told Grace Glueck in an article in The New York Times Magazine in 1984, she came up with the idea of penetrating deep into the Nova Scotia woods to “teach English in some backwater town.” But then, on another whim, she changed trains in Montreal for New York City.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2020 15:22 UTC