Personal Life
Shulman was married for a short time to a graduate student in the English department at Columbia. In 1959 she married her second husband, Martin Shulman, with whom she had two children. Shulman has spoken about having had four abortions, saying that "not one was the result of carelessness." In 1989 she married Scott York. Following his 2004 traumatic brain injury, through her writing she became an advocate of the elderly and disabled.
Her son, Theodore Shulman, is a pro-choice activist; he was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in February 2011, on charges of making interstate threats to anti-abortion advocates. On October 3, 2012 he was sentenced by federal judge Paul Crotty to 41 months in prison for threatening to kill two pro-life advocates. Her daughter, Polly Shulman, is an author.
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