Edythe Haber is an

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literary scholar, specializing in the history of

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. She is Professor Emerita at the

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. She is best known for her biography of the Russian emigre writer

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, which was published to critical acclaim in 2018. This was the first biography of Teffi in any language and played an important role in the ongoing discovery of Teffi in the West. She has also written a biography of

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. She was married to the Georgian theatre director Timur Djordjadze who died in 1994.

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