Miriam Zadek

Memoirist Miriam Zadek is a former clinical social work therapist and a recipient of the Maryland Governor’s Service Lifetime Achievement Award for her groundbreaking work with families and children.  

 

Zadek’s first book, Miriam Hearing Sister (Gallaudet University Press) was published in 2022, when she was 93 years old. Now, at age 95, she is publishing her first collection of poems: Find Me Here: Thirty-five Poems and Six Paintings.  She is currently at work on a children’s book and another collection of poems.

 

Her newest book, Find Me Here (2024), motivates self-healing and spiritual inquiry, especially for the aging and their families.

 

Blessed with eleven great-grandchildren. eleven grandchildren, and four daughters, she and husband, Robert Zadek, M.D., have been married for more than 70 years.

 

In her spare time, she participates in three book clubs (she’s a former student in the St. John’s College Great Books Program), is a student in the Classics program at St. John’s College, and serves on committees for the Seaside Jewish Community, Delaware, and Barnard College, New York City.

 

Miriam Scharfman Zadek is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University’s NY School of Social Work. She was born in Mt. Vernon, New York, in 1929.