Jun 13, 2007 — Lueza Thirkield Gelb was born in New Jersey, in the first part of the twentieth century, two years after the stock market crash, and grew up in the Adirondacks before and during World War II. Her book, Schroon Lake, won the Best Memoir award Sunday at the Adirondack Center for Writing's annual book awards in Blue Mountain Lake. Our book critic, Betsy Kepes, has this review.