Kate Simon (1) (1912–1990)
Auteur de A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Kate Simon, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Kate Simon 1912-1990
Œuvres de Kate Simon
I Gonzaga. Storia e Segreti 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Grobsmith, Kaila (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1912-12-05
- Date de décès
- 1990-02-04
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Poland (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Warsaw, Poland
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Warsaw, Poland
- Études
- Hunter College (BA)
- Professions
- memoirist
travel writer
book reviewer
editor
biographer - Courte biographie
- Kate Simon was born Kaila Grobsmith to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. When she was four years old, she, her mother Lonia, a corset maker, and her younger brother emigrated to the USA, her father David Grobsmith, a cobbler, having gone ahead three years earlier. During her childhood, her father pressured her to practice the piano for hours a day, urging her to quit school and fulfill his own thwarted ambition of becoming a professional concert pianist. She attended James Monroe High School and began to live in various friends’ homes and take odd jobs to support herself. She then studied English literature at Hunter College. She married Steve Simon, a deaf endocrinologist with whom she had a daughter. Following his death, she remarried in 1947 and divorced in 1959. Her literary career began as a book reviewer for The New Republic and The Nation magazines. She worked for the Book-of-the-Month Club, Publishers Weekly, and as a freelance editor for Alfred A. Knopf. She travelled around the world and from 1959 to 1978 wrote a series of bestselling guidebooks called Places and Pleasures for Meridian Books. Her three volumes of memoirs, beginning with A Bronx Primitive (1982) and continuing with Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence (1986) and Etchings in an Hourglass (1990), were considered shocking for their frank discussion of her mother’s abortions, her own early experiences of sexual abuse, her political, artistic, and sexual explorations in college, her affairs, her own abortions, and her painful second marriage. She also wrote a social history of Manhattan, Fifth Avenue: A Very Social Story (1978) and A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua (1988).
Membres
Discussions
trio of books about writer living in NYC à Name that Book (Avril 2013)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 748
- Popularité
- #33,983
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 49
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1
Bottom line: reading this book feels exactly like sitting down with a surprisingly candid grandmother and having her tell you stories about her teenage years.
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