[O]nly Benjamin Shepard, who links personal narrative and movement analysis with uncommon felicity, uses his own experiences to significantly deepen his article's insights. - Geoffrey Kurtz, review of Teamsters and Turtles?: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century Edited by John C. Berg, for Logos, Logos 2.4 - Fall 2003 Benjamin Heim Shepard's beautifully composed, and wonderfully moving White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic is a fine and telling history of how one city faced-and still faces-the endless effects of AIDS. - Michael Bronski, The Guide, Summer 1998
Benjamin Heim Shepard is an activist living in Brooklyn. This is his first novel.