Gerty Agoston is a Hungarian-American

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and novelist.

Early life

Agoston was born in

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. When she was 6 years old, she wanted to come to the United States after seeing American films. After studying in Paris, she went to New York City with her sister who had married a United States citizen. When she was in Paris, she wrote for the publication '' New Yorker Staats-Zeitung'' for 26 years and was a film correspondent for '' Basler Zeitung''. For 3 years, Agoston was the cultural correspondent of Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She later decided to quit her journalism career for writing novels and plays.

Writing career

Agoston has written 13 novels which have been translated into multiple languages. One of her novels, ''My Bed Is Not For Sleeping,'' was banned in

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. Other novels include ''I Married a Hundred Husbands'' and ''My Husband Is a Magnificent Whore''. Her one-act play; ''For Each Man Kills;'' was published in the

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''The Best One-Act Plays Of 1948-1949'' and her one-act play ''Three Parsons'' was published in ''The Best One-Act Plays Of 1950-1951''. She translated German plays into English as well as American plays into German.

Documentary

She was one of the subjects of '' Deeper Than Y'', a 2006 documentary about aging and the elderly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agoston, Gerty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers American women dramatists and playwrights American women novelists Hungarian emigrants to the United States Novelists from New York (state) Writers from New York City