In her new book, When People Wrote Letters: A Family Chronicle, Shakespeare scholar Martha Rozett talks about "becoming acquainted with the people my parents were before I was born" as she reviews their letters and other memorabilia.
"After my mother's death my father reduced the accumulations of a lifetime-- two lifetimes-- to the contents of a one-bedroom apartment in New York City. It is now six weeks after his death, and I have begun the sifting and sorting process once again...."
