Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
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Teacher's College (MA) | |
Occupation(s) | Writer, educator |
Known for | Author of A Houseful of Love and Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City |
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Relatives | Edgar Housepian (brother) |
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Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin (
November 21, 1922 – February 8, 2013) was an author and an English professor atNew York Times[1] and New York Herald Tribune[2] bestseller) and the history Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City.[3]
Biography
Housepian Dobkin was born in 1922 to Dr.
burning of Smyrna from which her grandmother fled as a refugee. Her younger brother was the neurosurgeon Edgar Housepian. She attended Barnard College, graduating in 1944. She was a professor of literature and writing from 1957 to 1993,[4] as well as associate dean of studies at Barnard from 1976 until 1993. Her students included the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.[5]
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.[6]
Awards and honors
She was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi prize of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia[7] and was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Wilson College.[8]
Bibliography
- A Houseful of Love (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
- ^ Bulletin of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, p. 6: In Memoriam notice
- ^ Winnipeg Free Press 13/7/1957 p. 37
- ^ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marjorie-housepian-2/the-smyrna-affair Kirkus Reviews
- ^ "Armenian Church". www.armenianchurch-ed.net. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ^ "Errol Flynn was missing character – Sun Sentinel". August 10, 2008.
- Moses M. Housepian's hometown of Kessab, and their descendants) published by the Kessab Educational Association of Los Angeles, Inc. (a California nonprofit corporation)
- ^ http://studyofgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/isg_48.pdf Bulletin of the Institute for the Study of Genocide p. 6: In Memoriam notice
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnae731barn/barnardalumnae731barn_djvu.txt Barnard Alumnae Fall 1983 p. 29
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