What is an orphanmaster?

What is an orphanmaster?

June 29, 2012 11:29 AM

Jean Zimmerman explains what an orphanmaster is, as well as her fascination with the historical period of seventeenth-century Manhattan, where her new novel, "The Orphanmaster" is set.

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