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Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin () was an author and an English professor at
Barnard College
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, Columbia University
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, New York
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. Her books include the novel ''A Houseful of Love
''A Houseful of Love'' is a novel by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, published in 1957 by Random House, that tells the story of an extended family of Armenian-Americans in 1929. It was a ''New York Times'' and ''New York Herald Tribune'' bestseller a ...
'' (a '' New York Times
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'' bestseller) and the history ''Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City''.
Biography
Housepian Dobkin was born in 1922 to Dr. Moses Housepian and his wife Makrouhie Housepian (née Ashjian),Armenian
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immigrants in New York City
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, two and a half months after her grandfather was killed by a Turkish soldier during the burning of Smyrna
The burning of Smyrna ( el, Καταστροφή της Σμύρνης, "Smyrna Catastrophe"; tr, 1922 İzmir Yangını, "1922 Izmir Fire"; hy, Զմիւռնիոյ Մեծ Հրդեհ, ''Zmyuṙno Mets Hrdeh'') destroyed much of the port city of ...
from which her grandmother fled as a refugee. Her younger brother was the neurosurgeon Edgar Housepian
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He wrote more tha ...
. She attended Barnard College, graduating in 1944. She was a professor of literature and writing from 1957 to 1993, as well as associate dean of studies at Barnard from 1976 until 1993. Her students included the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.
Her academic career included: instructor in English at Barnard College (1957–1988), associate dean of studies (1976–1993), professor of English (1988–1993), and 1993–2013: professor emerita (1993–2013).
She lived near Barnard at 425 Riverside Drive.
Awards and honors
She was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi prize of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia and was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Wilson College.https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnae731barn/barnardalumnae731barn_djvu.txt ''Barnard Alumnae'' Fall 1983 p. 29Bibliography
* ''A Houseful of Love
''A Houseful of Love'' is a novel by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, published in 1957 by Random House, that tells the story of an extended family of Armenian-Americans in 1929. It was a ''New York Times'' and ''New York Herald Tribune'' bestseller a ...
'' (Random House, 1957)
* ''The Smyrna Affair'' (US version, Harcourt Brave Jovanovich, 1971; republished by Newmark Press under the title ''Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City'')
** ''Smyrna 1922'' (UK version, Faber and Faber, 1972)
* "The Unremembered Genocide" (article in ''Commentary'')
* ''The Making of a Feminist: Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas'' (Kent State University Press, 1977)
* "George Horton and Mark L. Bristol: opposing forces in U.S. foreign policy, 1919–1923" (1983)
* ''Inside Out'' (written with Jean Cullen, Ivy Books, 1989)
References
External links
* Armenian Church website obituary notice. https://web.archive.org/web/20130816003635/http://www.armenianchurch-ed.net/news-and-media/news/marjorie-housepian-dobkin-1922-2013/] * :hy:Մարջըրի Հուսեփյան, Article on Marjorie Housepian Dobkin in Eastern Armenian Wikipedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian 1922 births 2013 deaths American writers of Armenian descent Columbia University faculty Barnard College alumni Educators from New York City American women academics 21st-century American women