The official companion book to the feature-length documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, featuring previously unpublished photographs from the first season of Sesame Street and interviews with cast and crew
Trevor Crafts is an award–winning producer whose works
include Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street and Lantern City,
based on his own BOOM! Studios comic-book series. He is the CEO of
Macrocosm Entertainment and lives in Weston, Connecticut.
David Attie was a highly prolific commercial and fine-art
photographer from the late 1950s until his passing in the 1980s. In
March 1970, he photographed the very first season of Sesame Street
for Amerika, a Russian-language magazine distributed in the Soviet
Union during the Cold War. Attie’s work is in the Smithsonian’s
National Portrait Gallery, and is represented by Getty Images and
by Keith De Lellis Gallery in New York City. Eli Attie is an
Emmy-winning TV writer and producer whose credits include long
stints on The West Wing and House, and more recently, Billions. He
previously served as Vice President Al Gore’s chief White House and
campaign speechwriter through Gore’s concession of the 2000
presidential election, which he and Gore wrote together.
Michael Davis was a senior editor and family television
columnist for TV Guide from 1998 to 2007. A Neiman Fellow, he has
also worked for the Baltimore Sun and Chicago Sun-Times. He is the
author of Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
(Penguin, 2008).
Sonia Manzano is a mainland Puerto Rican, raised in the
Bronx. After starring in Broadway show "Godspell" she went on to
create the role of Maria on Sesame Street, for which she received a
Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award in 2016. Scholastic recently
announced a four-book deal with Manzano. The first novel, Coming Up
Cuban, will publish in 2022. Currently she is working on Alma's
Way, an animated series with Fred Rogers Productions that will air
on PBS. Sonia lives in New York City with her husband.
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