Helen Epstein


Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.

Biography

Helen Epstein is the author, co-author, translator or editor of ten books of narrative non-fiction including the memoirs Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History; the biography of theater producer Joseph Papp; Heda Kovaly’s Under a Cruel Star, Paul Ornstein’s Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst, and the tribute anthology Archivist on a Bicycle . Her most recent book, published January 8, 2018, is The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma. It was published in English and Czech in 2018.
Helen Epstein was born in Prague in November 27, 1947, grew up in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College High School, Hebrew University, and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She became a journalist at the age of 20, while caught in the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Her account was published in the Jerusalem Post and she has been a journalist ever since. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many major American publications and include profiles of art historian Meyer Schapiro and musicians Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein.
She was the first tenured woman journalism professor in New York University and taught about 1000 students over 12 years. She guest lectures extensively at universities, libraries and religious institutions in North America and abroad.

Works