December 1, 2011

Bill AldenBill has been the sports editor of the Town Topics since 2002. During that time, he has received nine sports writing awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the New Jersey Press Association. His work has also appeared in the Washington PostNew York Newsday, and the New York Law Journal. A native of McLean, Va., Bill earned degrees from Amherst College, the Washington and Lee School of Law, and the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science. He lives in Princeton with his wife and two daughters.

Anne LevinAnne writes about arts, culture, and other topics for Town Topics; Connections, the Princeton Public Library’s magazine; US1; and Princeton Magazine. She also contributes articles regularly to PlaybillWHERE magazine, The Times of Trenton, and other publications. She was a staff writer and reporter at The Times of Trenton for two decades, winning an award from Preservation New Jersey for her coverage of preservation issues. She lives in Trenton.

LINDA_ARNTZENIUSLinda Arntzenius has been a professional freelance writer for almost two decades with stints along the way as an adjunct college professor, marketing communications specialist, editor, newspaper reporter, and oral history interviewer. A native of Scotland, Linda came to Princeton by way of London, Pittsburgh, Boston, and Los Angeles. She holds master’s degrees in philosophy from the London School of Economics and professional writing from the University of Southern California. Linda is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative and the Princeton Research Forum. Her most recent book publication is a pictorial history, Images of America: Institute for Advanced Study (Arcadia, February 2011).

Stuart MitchnerBorn in Kansas, raised in Indiana, a graduate of Indiana University, Stuart worked at the Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village, as a college rep for W.W. Norton, hitchhiked to India and Nepal and back for a year and a half, which he wrote about while doing graduate work at Rutgers; the book was Indian Action, published by Little Brown, which also published his novel, Rosamund’s Vision. He’s been writing about books and the arts for Town Topics since 2003; he’s published poetry, fiction, essays in Poetry, Partisan Review, Raritan, and the Village Voice.