Marilyn Ogus Katz taught at the State University of New York College at Purchase and was dean of studies at Sarah Lawrence for many years. “Uncle Sol Comes to America” is one in a collection of linked stories, A Few Small Stones, about coming of age in an immigrant family in New York City in the 1940s. Three others have been or will be published by Writer’s Digest, Hadassah Magazine and Jewish Currents. Her novel, The Lacemaker, about a family caught between Hitler and Stalin, is in the final stages of revision.