Ann Birstein (1927–2017)
Autor(a) de Rabbi on Forty-Seventh Street: The Story of Her Father
About the Author
Ann Judith Birstein was born in New York City on May 27, 1927. She graduated from Queens College in 1948 and spent a year in France as a Fulbright scholar. While a senior at Queens College, she wrote a novel about a rabbi's secretary. The manuscript won a fellowship sponsored by the publisher Dodd, mostrar mais Mead and Company for $1,200. Star of Glass was published in 1950. Her other novels included The Troublemaker, Dickie's List, and Summer Situations. She married literary critic Alfred Kazin in 1952 and they divorced in 1982. She also wrote several memoirs including The Rabbi on Forty-Seventh Street and What I Saw at the Fair. She taught creative writing at Barnard College, Queens College, and City College in New York and lectured at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She died of lung cancer on May 24, 2017 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Birstein, Ann Judith
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-05-27
- Data de falecimento
- 2017-05-24
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer (lung)
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
France - Educação
- Queens College
Julia Richman High School - Ocupação
- novelist
memoirist
creative writing teacher - Relacionamentos
- Kazin, Alfred (spouse | 1952-1982)
- Organizações
- Barnard College
Queens College
City College of New York
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop - Premiações
- Fulbright Scholarship
- Pequena biografia
- Ann Birstein grew up in Hell's Kitchen, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. She wrote her first novel while still in college, and it won a fellowship sponsored by the publishers. The novel came out when she was 23.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 52
- Popularidade
- #307,430
- Avaliação
- 3.0
- ISBNs
- 16