Local Boy – Lin-Manuel Miranda – in The New Yorker no less

“The life of twenty-seven-year-old Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer of and lead actor in the new musical “In the Heights”””about the ups and downs of the residents of a block in Washington Heights””seemed pretty serene the other day as he did some errands in the old neighborhood. Miranda, who is trim and dark-haired, with a goatee, and is as eager-beaverish as they come, lives on upper Broadway, a few blocks from his parents’ house, across the street from Inwood Hills Park, where he was born.

“I’m the luckiest guy in the whole world,” he said, taking a chair at his local barbershop, where he was getting a shape-up on his goatee. “My dad, Luis Miranda, is a Democratic political consultant and lobbyist, and founder of the Spanish-English weekly Manhattan Times. My sister Luz is an executive at the paper. My dad and my mother”””a child psychologist, also named Luz””“encouraged me my whole entire life to do what I wanted. So I found places””Wesleyan, for one””that had people who felt as passionately as I did about things like Hitchcock movies. “

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