Stella K. Hershan

Stella K. Hershan (1915–2014) was an Austrian-American novelist and biographer who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a refugee from the Holocaust. Among her published works are two about Eleanor Roosevelt: ''A Woman of Quality'' and ''The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt''.

Hershan, born in Vienna, was the daughter of Felix Kreidl, a businessman, and Lucy Pick Kreidl. She married Rudolph Hershan, an engineer, in 1933. She graduated from New York University with a certificate in general education in 1962 and from the New School for Social Research with a certificate in human relations in 1968.

The Hershans had one child, a daughter, Lisa. Preceded in death by her husband, Hershan died in 2014 in New York City.

Bibliography

Biography

* ''A Woman of Quality'', (1970)
* ''The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt'' (1993)
* ''Emigration, Emigration : Exilgeschichten'' (in German) (2004)
* ''Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten : Exilerzählungen = Memories Between Two Worlds'' (in German) (2006)

Novels

* ''The Naked Angel : A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon'' (1973)
* ''The Maiden of Kosovo'' (2003)
* ''In Freundschaft, Elisabeth : Roman'' (in German) (1992)
* ''Ein Kind der Revolution: Roman" (in German) (1992)

Hershan also contributed to journals in the United States and Austria.

References

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1915 births
2014 deaths
20th-century American women writers
Writers from Vienna
Writers from Manhattan
Novelists from New York City
21st-century American women writers
New York University alumni
The New School alumni
20th-century Austrian women writers
21st-century Austrian women writers
Austrian emigrants to the United States