Helen Epstein
Helen Epstein | |
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Born | Prague, Czechoslovakia | November 27, 1947
Occupation | Writer of memoir, biography, and journalism |
Nationality | American |
Education | Hunter College High School, Hebrew University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Notable works | Children of the Holocaust |
Spouse | Patrick Mehr (m 1983) |
Children | Daniel Mehr, Samuel Mehr |
Website | |
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Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.
Biography
Helen Epstein is the author, co-author, translator or editor of ten books of narrative non-fiction including the memoirs Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History; the biography of theater producer Joseph Papp; Heda Kovaly’s Under a Cruel Star, Paul Ornstein’s Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst,[1] and the tribute anthology Archivist on a Bicycle [2]. Her most recent book, published January 8, 2018, is The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma. It was published in English and Czech in 2018.[3]
Helen Epstein was born in Prague in November 27, 1947, grew up in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College High School, Hebrew University,[4] and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She became a journalist at the age of 20, while caught in the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Her account was published in the Jerusalem Post and she has been a journalist ever since.[5] Her articles and reviews have appeared in many major American publications and include profiles of art historian Meyer Schapiro[6] and musicians Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein.[7]
She was the first tenured woman journalism professor in New York University (1981) and taught about 1000 students over 12 years.[8] She guest lectures extensively at universities, libraries and religious institutions in North America and abroad.[9]
Works
- Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror. Columbia Global Reports. ISBN 0997722924, 978-0997722925
- Children of the Holocaust. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140112847
- Music Talks. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070195447
- Where She Came from: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 0316246085
- The Companies She Keeps. Plunkett Lake Press. ISBN 0961469609
- Joe Papp. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0316246042
- Écrire la vie. La Cause des Livres. ISBN 2917336072
- Un athlète juif dans la tourmente. La Cause des Livres. ISBN 2917336196
- Under a Cruel Star. Holmes & Meier Publishers. ISBN 0841913773
- Acting in Terezín. Plunkett Lake Press.
- Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst. Plunkett Lake Press. ISBN 0961469633
- Archivist on a Bicycle. Plunkett Lake Press.
References
- ^ Cantrell, Cindy (February 16, 2016). "From Budapest to Brookline, a psychoanalyst looks back". The Boston Globe.
- ^ "Czech Republic: Tribute book to Jiří Fiedler published". Jewish Heritage Europe. jewish-heritage-europe.eu. July 24, 2015.
- ^ "The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma by Helen Epstein". Plunkett Lake Press. plunkettlakepress.com.
- ^ "Helen Epstein". American Friends of the Hebrew University. afhu.org.
- ^ Epstein, Helen (1968). "Tears in Prague" (PDF).
- ^ Landi, Ann (2007). "A Modernist Manifesto". ARTNews.
- ^ Ross, Michael (1987). "Music Talks". The New York Times.
- ^ Kornwitz, Jason (2015). "Helen Epstein on "Intergenerational Effects of Genocide: A Survivor's Daughter Reflects"". Northeastern University.
- ^ "Helen Epstein" (video). UO Today, #229. University of Oregon. media.uoregon.edu. February 5, 2007.
External links
- 1947 births
- American biographers
- American memoirists
- American women journalists
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
- Czech emigrants to the United States
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Hunter College High School alumni
- Living people
- New York University faculty
- Women biographers
- American women memoirists
- Writers from Massachusetts
- Writers from New York City
- Writers from Prague