Stella K. Hershan

Stella K. Hershan
Stella K. Hershan
BornFebruary 7, 1915
Vienna, Austria
DiedAugust 22, 2014(2014-08-22) (aged 99)
New York City
Education
OccupationWriter
SpouseRudolph Hershan
Children1
Parents
  • Felix Kreidl
  • Lucy Pick Kreidl

Stella K. Hershan (1915–2014) was an Austrian-American novelist and biographer who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a refugee[1] from the Holocaust.[2] Among her published works are two about Eleanor Roosevelt: A Woman of Quality[3] and The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.[1]

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.[1]

The Hershans had one child, a daughter, Lisa. Preceded in death by her husband, Hershan died in 2014 in New York City.[1]

Bibliography

Biography

  • A Woman of Quality, (1970)[3]
  • The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt (1993)[1]
  • Emigration, Emigration : Exilgeschichten (in German) (2004)[4]
  • Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten : Exilerzählungen = Memories Between Two Worlds (in German) (2006)[5]

Novels

  • The Naked Angel : A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon (1973)[6]
  • The Maiden of Kosovo (2003)[7]
  • In Freundschaft, Elisabeth : Roman (in German) (1992)[8]
  • Ein Kind der Revolution: Roman" (in German) (1992)[9]

Hershan also contributed to journals in the United States and Austria.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Biography in Context:Stella K. Hershan". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2002. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "Hershan, Stella K.: Paid Death Notice". The New York Times. August 31, 2014. p. A22. ProQuest 1558357470.
  3. ^ a b "A Woman of Quality". WorldCat. OCLC 96433.
  4. ^ "Emigration, Emigration: Exilgeschichten". WorldCat. OCLC 77077342.
  5. ^ "Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten Exilerzählungen" [Memories Between Two Worlds]. WorldCat. OCLC 318640759.
  6. ^ "The Naked Angel: A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon". WorldCat. OCLC 16241441.
  7. ^ "The Maiden of Kosovo". WorldCat. OCLC 163107764.
  8. ^ "In Freundschaft, Elisabeth: Roman". WorldCat. OCLC 26295688.
  9. ^ "Ein Kind der Revolution: Roman". WorldCat. OCLC 27192656.