Sydney Ladensohn Stern, a New York–based freelance writer, has contributed to the New York Times, Air Mail, Literary Hub, Publishers Weekly, Criterion’s The Current, and many other publications. She is author of Toyland: The High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry, a Book of the Month Club pick, and Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique. For more information, go to sydneylstern.com.
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