biography
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Heilbrun, Carolyn
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née Gold, pseudonym Amanda Cross
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pronunciation:
[hiylbrun]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Writer and teacher, born in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. She studied at Wellesley (1947 BA) and Columbia University (1951 MA; 1959 PhD). She was a visiting lecturer and professor at many institutions, and taught English at Brooklyn College (1959–60) and Columbia (1960–93). She published scholarly works, but is best known as a writer of popular mystery novels featuring Kate Fansler, also an urban college professor, as seen in A Trap for Fools (1989). |
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