Madeleine Stern

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Madeleine Bettina star (* 1. July 1912 in New York ; † 18 August 2007 ibid) was an US -American Antiquarian -Buchhändlerin and author .

Life

Madeleine Stern was born in Harlem on July 1, 1912, the second child of Lillie Mack and Moses R. Stern . She attended Hunter College and studied from February 1929 at Barnard College . In May 1932 she received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Barnard College. She graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1934 .

After studying Madeleine Star published in 1935 her first book We are taken ( we are carried away ). After that, she wrote a biography about Margaret Fuller ( The Life of Margaret Fuller ). In 1943 she received a Guggenheim scholarship . Her biography of Louisa May Alcott (1950) on which Madeleine Sterne had been working since 1942 caused a sensation . There it is described that Louisa May Alcott had published various horror and horror novels under the pseudonym AM Barnard . In total, Madeleine Sterne published more than 40 books as an author and co-author . Many of these books deal with biographies or the subject of books and publishing .

Madeleine Sterne had a lifelong friendship with Leona Rostenberg . Both met for the first time in 1929 as an assistant teacher in a Sabbath school in Manhattan . Their common interest in rare books led them to travel together in Europe and America. For over 50 years you ran an antiquarian bookstore Rostenberg & Stern Rare Books . In addition, they had been members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) since 1949 and founded an annual book fair, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair .

Works (selection)

  • We are taken Galleon Press (1935)
  • The Life of Margaret Fuller EP Dutton & Company (1942)
  • Louisa May Alcott University of Oklahoma Press (1950)
  • Purple Passage: The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie University of Oklahoma (1953)
  • Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers
  • We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America
  • So Much in a Lifetime: The Life of Dr. Isabel Barrows Messner (1964)
  • Queen of Publisher's Row: Mrs. Frank Leslie
  • The Pantarch: A Biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews University of Texas (1968)
  • Heads and Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers University of Oklahoma (1971)
  • Books and Book People in the United States: A History Bowker (1978)
  • Publishers for mass entertainment in nineteenth century America Hall (1980)
  • Antiquarian bookselling in the United States Greenwood Press (1985)
  • Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia Philadelphia (1988)
  • Studies in the Franco-American book trade during the late 18th and early 19th centuries Pindar Press (1994)
  • From revolution to revolution Oak Knoll Press (2002)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.louisamayalcott.org
  2. ↑ Leona Rostenberg / Madeleine Stern: Two friends, one passion. Our lives for rare books. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Madeleine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern, Madeleine Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American antiquarian bookseller and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2007
Place of death New York , USA