INTRODUCING
We sort of People
Journalist and Writer Leslie Tucker and photographer Henry Horenstein began working together in 1997, when she invited him to Maryland to shoot a mysterious multiethnic family, the little-known Wesort clan: »We sorts are different from you sorts.« The project started as a genealogical search for a family whose roots stretched back to the founding of the first Catholic colony, it grew into a mystery about the multiethnic origins of America, then became a race against time as the Wesorts and their descendants disappeared and their stories died. While Horenstein photographed the last generation of Proctors and their disappearing world, Tucker recorded the conversations she had with the wise women of the family. A living archive emerges, with voices that portray the complex realities of their lives in their own words, as seen through their eyes.
Meet Leslie
Leslie Tucker worked in book and magazine publishing, children’s television, and broadcast journalism. She was a freelance field producer for CNN Manila. After the Soviet Union collapsed, she managed thirty regions in Russia, teaching radio and TV broadcasters how to produce Western-style economic news and programs.
Leslie majored in English Literature at Princeton University, where she studied with award-winning playwrights Romulus Linney, Maria Irene Forces and Adrienne Kennedy, who encouraged her to leave America in order to see it more clearly.
She lived in Moscow for nearly two decades.
While We Sort of People is a standalone volume with Henry, she has been writing her second book, The Less She Spoke, which delves into the larger context of the branch of the Proctor family that broke off from their Maryland history, and will explore their broken roots in depth.