Kressmann Taylor
Kressmann Taylor (* 1903 in Portland , Oregon ; † July 1996 , real name Kathrine Taylor , nee Kathrine Kressmann ) was an American writer.
Life
Kressmann Taylor was a copywriter and journalist by profession. After her second book was published, she taught at Gettysburg College. She later lived in Florence and Minneapolis. After her best-known work, addressee unknown, had become an international success decades after it was first published, she says she happily spent the last year of her life writing autograph cards and giving interviews. The mother of three children died in July 1996.
Services
Taylor's most famous work Address Unknown (English: Address Unknown ) appeared in 1938, but was only decades later known in Europe. Taylor chose a pseudonym because her publisher felt that a woman's political text would not be taken seriously. The book describes the changes brought about by the rise of National Socialism in Germany. It shows a fictitious correspondence between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his friend and business partner who has returned to Germany. The German is increasingly enthusiastic about National Socialism, and finally the relationship between the two begins to turn into open enmity.
First published in 1938 in the US magazine Story , the addressee unknown caused a broad public discussion. The story was published as a book in 1939, had a circulation of 50,000 in the US, and was banned in Germany. In 1995, on the occasion of the 50 years of liberation from the extermination camps , the book was reissued by Story Press Books Verlag; this is the last English-language edition to date. The book became an international success. It has been translated into 15 languages and 600,000 copies have been sold in France alone. In 2001 a German version was finally released, which also landed on the bestseller lists.
In 1942 Taylor published another book, Day of no return , which uses the story of the real Leopold Bernhard to deal with the fate of German Christians in the resistance against National Socialism.
Works
- Addressee unknown (1938)
- Until that day (1942)
- Day of no return (1942)
Web links
- Literature by and about Kressmann Taylor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kathrine Taylor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See short biography at Gettysburg College. In the case of Perlentaucher and the IMDb , 1997 is named as the year of death.
- ↑ See Michael Schmitt: Too much trust in God. Kressmann Taylor's novel about the Church in the Third Reich. In: NZZ, April 1, 2003.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taylor, Kressmann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, Kathrine (real name); Kressmann, Kathrine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portland, Oregon |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1996 |