Helen Epstein
| Helen Epstein | |
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| Born |
November 27, 1947 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation | Writer of memoir, biography, and journalism |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hunter College High School, Hebrew University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| Spouse | Patrick Mehr (m 1983) |
| Children | Sons: Daniel Mehr, Samuel Mehr |
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Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.
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, and the tribute anthology Archivist on a Bicycle . Her most recent book (forthcoming 2017) is The Long Half-Life of Love: A Memoir.
Helen Epstein was born in Prague November 27, 1947, grew up in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College High School, Hebrew University, 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. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many major American publications and include profiles of art historian Meyer Schapiro and musicians Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein.
She was the first tenured woman journalism professor in New York University (1981) and taught about 1000 students over 12 years. She is a co-founder of Plunkett Lake Press, an electronic publisher of non-fiction classics. She guest lectures extensively at universities, libraries and religious institutions in North America and abroad.
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