Zelda Popkin

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Zelda Popkin (born July 5, 1898 in New York City as Zelda Feinberg , † May 25, 1983 in Silver Spring , Maryland ) was an American crime writer and freelance journalist . With the detective Mary Carner, she created one of the early serial heroines of this genre.

Life

Zelda Feinberg trained as a journalist in 1917 and married Louis Popkin in 1919, with whom she set up an advertising agency , which she managed until her husband's death in 1943. 1945–1946 she traveled to Germany and France as a special representative of the American Red Cross . One of the first novels was written on the Holocaust ( Small Victory , Lippincott, Philadelphia & New York 1947). The couple had two sons, Roy and Richard.

Works (selection)

Mary Carner series
  • Rendezvous after closing time (1938)
  • Career women live faster (1939)
  • The Dead Next Door (1940)
  • A Devil's Testament (1941)
  • The Lady Does Not Murder (1942)
more novels
  • So Much Blood (1944)
  • Journey Home (1945) (English)
  • Small Victory (1947) (English)
  • Walk Through the Valley (1949) (English)
  • Quiet Street (1951) (English)
  • A Death of Innocence (1971) (English)
  • Herman Had Two Daughters (1973) (English)
  • Dear Once (1975) (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard H. Popkin was a world-renowned historian of philosophy of modern and Jewish skepticism. None of his major works have been translated into German, but in 2008 his memoirs Mit allen Makeln were published by Meiner.
  2. ↑ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/zelda-popkin/ Bibliography on www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Popkin, Zelda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feinberg, Zelda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime writer and freelance journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1983
Place of death Silver Spring , Maryland