Stephen Birmingham

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Stephen Birmingham, born May 28, 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut, is an author.

Born to Thomas Birmingham and Editha Gardner Birmingham, he received a BA from Williams College in 1953. He is a former teacher of writing at the University of Cincinnati. He has written over thirty books and is now retired.[1]

Birmingham has written extensively about the upper classes in America. Among his books are:

  • Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York
  • The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
  • America's Secret Aristocracy
  • The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite
  • The Wrong Kind of Money
  • Certain People: America's Black Elite
  • Real Lace: America's Irish Rich