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Sarah M. Broom

Biography

Sarah M. Broom

Sarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. A native New Orleanian, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York State.

Sarah M. Broom

Books by Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House
by Sarah M. Broom - Memoir, Nonfiction

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother, Ivory Mae, bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race, and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant --- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father, Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number 12 children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah’s birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s 13th and most unruly child. THE YELLOW HOUSE tells a hundred years of Sarah’s family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.