She insists that she never considered being anything but a writer.
Pfeffer was born on February 17, 1948, in New York City. Her family soon moved out into the suburbs of the city--first to Queens and then to Long Island. "I had the best of all environmental childhoods," she told AAYA. Her mother, Freda Pfeffer, who worked as a secretary, took her and her older brother Alan into New York City regularly. "We visited the planetarium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and did a lot of used book shopping, which was a special treat because then we would go to the Horn and Hardart Automat for lunch." Her father, Leo Pfeffer, was a constitutional lawyer who had tried cases before the Supreme Court before becoming a law professor at Long Island University. The family spent summers at their country house in Livingston Manor, a small town in the Catskill mountains of New York. "The house was totally isolated, the only house on the hill, and it was wonderful," Pfeffer remembered. "We got the benefits of living near the city for part of the year and in the country for the rest."
During one of those country summers, Leo Pfeffer sat down to write what became a six-hundred page book on constitutional law.
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