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Lowell Handler


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Memoir, Nonfiction


Lowell Handler is the star and associate producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS television documentary Twitch & Shout. With the film, Handler reached a mainstream audience and set the stage for his 1998 memoir, Twitch & Shout: A Touretter’s Tale, published by Penguin.

Handler is a also a photographer whose pictures have appeared in Life, Newsweek, Elle, U.S. News & World Report, The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, Hippocrates, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.

His second book Crazy and Proud is the inside story of an inner-city shelter for transient, mentally-ill women. Handler was hired as a recreation worker to teach photography to this hidden population.

Lowell Handler lives with his wife, writer Jane Smith, in upstate New Y ...more

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Average rating: 3.53 · 121 ratings · 13 reviews · 3 distinct works
Twitch And Shout: A Tourett...
3.54 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004
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