Ariel Durant
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Ariel Durant (10 May 1898 – 25 October 1981) was co-author of The Story of Civilization.
Biography [edit]
Ariel Durant was born in Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York. Will was then a teacher at the school, but resigned his post to marry Ariel, who was fifteen at the time of the wedding on October 31, 1913. [1]
Ariel and Will Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization. In 1977 they were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford, and Ariel was named "Woman of the Year" by the city of Los Angeles.
The Durants' autobiography, A Dual Autobiography (ISBN 0-671-23078-6), was published in 1978.
Ariel Durant and her husband Will are buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
External links [edit]
- ^ "Durant, Ariel", in Jewish Women in America, E. Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. (Taylor & Francis, 1997) p343
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- 1898 births
- 1981 deaths
- American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- American historians
- American memoirists
- American women writers
- Encyclopedists
- Jewish American historians
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners
- Art Students League of New York alumni
- People from Los Angeles, California
- Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- People from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
