Bel Kaufman (1911–2014)
Auteur de Up the Down Staircase
A propos de l'auteur
Bella Kaufman was born in Berlin, Germany on May 10, 1911. In 1922, she emigrated to the United States with her parents. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College in 1934 and a Master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1936. She worked as a teacher and sold the afficher plus occasional short story to magazines. Her first novel, Up the Down Staircase, was published in 1965. There was a film version of the novel made in 1967. Her other works included Love, Etc. and a collection of short stories entitled La Tigresse. She died on July 25, 2014 at the age of 103. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Bel Kaufman
The Down Stair Case 1 exemplaire
Die Abwärtstreppe rauf (German Edition) 1 exemplaire
Kaufmann, Abwärtstreppe 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Kaufman, Bella (born)
- Autres noms
- KAUFMAN, Bella
- Date de naissance
- 1911-05-10
- Date de décès
- 2014-07-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Germany
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Berlin, Germany
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Bronx, New York, USA - Études
- Hunter College
Columbia University (MA - English) - Professions
- teacher
lecturer
novelist
short-story writer - Relations
- Aleichem, Sholem (grandfather)
Kaufman, Lyala (mother) - Organisations
- Columbia University
- Courte biographie
- Bella "Bel" Kaufman was born in Berlin, where her father was studying medicine, but raised in Odessa and Kiev. Her family emigrated to the USA in 1923 when she was 12 years old, settling in New York City, where she first began learning English. She attended Hunter College and then earned a master's degree in literature from Columbia University. Her grandfather, the famed storyteller Sholem Aleichem, encouraged her to write at an early age and she had published her first story by age 7. After graduating from Columbia, Ms. Kaufman became a teacher in the New York City public schools. Her experiences formed the basis for her 1965 best-selling novel “Up the Down Staircase.” She also published several other works and in her nineties taught a class on Jewish humor at Hunter College. In 1940, Ms. Kaufman married Sydney Goldstine and the couple had two children; they divorced in the 1960s. She married a second time, to Sidney J. Gluck, who runs the Sholem Aleichem Memorial Foundation.
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