Edith Mendel Stern (24 June 1901 – 8 February 1975) was a novelist, book editor, journalist, critic, and writer of books and booklets written as guides on how to cope with problems related to aging, mental illness, and disabled children.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in
New York City
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, Edith Mendel earned a B.A. from
Barnard College
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in 1922. She was on the editorial staff of
Alfred A. Knopf
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and subsequently on the editorial staffs of several other publishing houses, including
Boni & Liveright
Boni & Liveright (pronounced "BONE-eye" and "LIV-right") is an American trade book publisher established in 1917 in New York City by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. Over the next sixteen years the firm, which changed its name to Horace Live ...
. She married William A. Stern II, a
Justice Department
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lawyer. After publishing four novels from 1927 to 1935, she wrote books on mental health aimed at a popular audience.
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Works
Novels
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Nonfiction books and pamphlets
* with Samuel Warren Hamilton, MD: (5th edition 1968)
* with Mary E. Corcoran:
* with Howard W. Hopkirk:
* with Samuel Warren Hamilton, MD: ()
* with Elsa Castendyck:
* with Mabel Ross: ;
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References
External links
Summary of Edith M. Stern papers, 1962–1973, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
1901 births
1975 deaths
American women novelists
Jewish American novelists
Barnard College alumni
Novelists from New York City
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American Jews
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