Brenda Webster
| Brenda Webster | |
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| Born | 1936 New York City |
| Occupation | Writer, critic and translator |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College, Barnard College, Columbia University, UC Berkeley |
| Notable works | Vienna Triangle, The Beheading Game, The Last Good Freudian |
| Spouse | Ira M. Lapidus |
| Relatives | Ethel Schwabacher, George Oppen |
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Brenda Webster is an American writer, critic and translator. She is the author of five novels, including The Beheading Game (2006) and Vienna Triangle (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times. Her most recent novel, After Auschwitz: A Love Story, published in 2013, is a story of an elderly man dealing with the early stages of dementia as he struggles to hold on to his memories and cope with his changing relationship to his wife.
Webster is the current president of PEN West.
Brenda Webster was born in New York City in 1936, the daughter of abstract expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher and the prominent entertainment lawyer Wolf Schwabacher. Webster's memoir The Last Good Freudian recounts a privileged childhood that was deeply affected by her family's devotion to Freudian ideology. Webster herself entered psychoanalysis at age 14, but eventually rebelled against what she saw as the patriarchy of orthodox Freudianism.
Webster was educated at Swarthmore College, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and completed doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has three children and five grandchildren, and splits her time between Berkeley and Rome. Her husband is Ira M. Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of A History of Islamic Societies.
Brenda Webster is the author of five novels: Sins of the Mothers,Paradise Farm,The Beheading Game,Vienna Triangle, and After Auschwitz: A Love Story. Her memoir, The Last Good Freudian was published by Holmes and Meier in 2000. Webster also published a translation with Gabriella Romani of Edith Bruck's Holocaust novel, Lettera alla Madre in 2006.
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