Miriam Academy, an independent high school for students with unique learning needs, soon will have a permanent home in the H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy building on North Warson Road. Miriam Foundation bought the 58,000-square-foot property this fall and expects to have it ready for the 2020-21 school year following about $2 million in improvements. Founded in 2016, Miriam Academy currently is located in temporary space on North Ballas Road. The Hebrew school is moving to University City.

Celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is set to receive the Saint Louis University Library Associates’ 2019 St. Louis Literary Award Oct. 24 at The Sheldon. Danticat is the author of works like Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker. SLU students and faculty have led several campus discussions about her work this fall.

Doctors who want to blaze trails in medical and scientific research will have access to considerable resources and support through the new Washington University School of Medicine Division of Physician-Scientists. Headed by rheumatologist and researcher Dr. Wayne Yokoyama, the initiative will offer mentorships, leadership programs and more. 

St. Louis authors Barbara Bryant and Betsy Fentress bring a favorite ingredient out of its shell in Pecans: Recipes and History of an American Nut, a cookbook recently released by Rizzoli International Publishing. It’s chock full of recipes, nutritional tips, food history and enlightening ideas from local culinary personalities like Gerard Craft, Matt McGuire and Jimmy Fiala.

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