About Sam Schrager

Sam Schrager attended Reed College in Portland and in 1972 drifted to Troy with his wife Laura. The oral history project excerpted in this issue inspired him to study folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of The Trial Lawyer's Art, he taught American studies and ethnography at Evergreen State College from 1988 to 2018. He and Laura, who have three grown children, live near Olympia, Washington.