Esther Hautzig (1930–2009)
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Esther Hautzig was born on October 18, 1930. During World War II, her family was exiled from Poland to Siberia, where they worked in labor camps. In 1947, she traveled via ocean liner to New York on a student visa. While aboard the ocean liner, she met the Vienna-born pianist Walter Hautzig, who näytä lisää was returning from a concert tour. They married in 1950. She enrolled in Hunter College, but never finished because a professor there told her that her accent would disqualify her from becoming a teacher. She took a job as a secretary at the publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons and later was promoted to children's books. During her lifetime she wrote numerous books including Let's Cook without Cooking (1955), Let's Make Presents (1962), A Gift for Mama (1987), Remember Who You Are: Stories About Being Jewish (1990), Riches (1992) and A Picture of Grandmother (2002). The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (1968) won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. She also translated stories by the Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz. She died of congestive heart failure and complications of Alzheimer's disease on November 1, 2009 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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- Virallinen nimi
- Hautzig, Esther Rudomin
- Muut nimet
- Rudomin, Esther
- Syntymäaika
- 1930-10-18
- Kuolinaika
- 2009-11-01
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Vilna, Poland
- Kuolinpaikka
- USA
- Kuolinsyy
- congestive heart failure
complications from Alzheimer's disease - Asuinpaikat
- Vilna, Poland
Rubtsovsk, Siberia, USSR
Lodz, Poland
Stockholm, Sweden
New York, New York, USA - Koulutus
- Hunter College
- Ammatit
- children's book author
secretary
translator - Suhteet
- Hautzig, Deborah (daughter)
Hautzig, David (son) - Organisaatiot
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Jane Addams Book Award 1970
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1971 - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Esther Rudomin wa born in Vilna, then part of Poland, to a Jewish family. In World War II, her father was drafted into the Russian Army, while Esther, her mother, and her grandparents were deported by the Soviets to Siberian forced labor camps. They spent five grueling years there and her grandfather died. After the war, Esther emigrated to the USA, settling in New York. After attending high school and college, she became a secretary in a publishing company and began promoting and writing books for children. In 1950, she married Walter Hautzig, a Viennese-born pianist whom she had met on the ship coming to America. Encouraged by Adlai Stevenson, Esther Hautzig started writing books on her childhood and on survival during the Holocaust, based on her own and her family's ordeal, that became classics of young people’s literature. She also translated stories by the Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz.
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