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    🕮    Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy is a picture book biography of the Jewish actor best known for playing Mr. Spock on Star Trek. Author Rich Michelson was great friends with Nimoy and brings his personal perspective to the project. Click on the title to find many more links at Rich's own website.

Rich Michelson is a prolific poet and author, and has been on The Book of Life several times before:

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  Left: Rich Michelson, Right: Leonard Nimoy

  May 2007, Rich discusses his baseball themed picture book Across the Alley 
• February 2009, Rich speaks on his award winning biography of Abraham Joshua Heshel and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., As Good As Anybody
• December 2009, Rich takes part in a kidlit conversation at the Planet Esme Reading Room

VIDEO:

Thanks to the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project for allowing The Book of Life to sample Nimoy's Yiddish recitation of Hamlet's soliloquy. Here is their full interview with him.


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