Katharine Scherman

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Katharine Scherman Rosin (October 7, 1915 – December 11, 2009) was an American author of non-fiction.

History[]

Born in New York City, Katharine Scherman Rosin was the daughter of Harry Scherman and . Her father was Jewish and her mother was of Irish and Welsh descent.[1] She married Axel G. Rosin on April 10, 1943. She had two children, Karen and Susanna. She received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1938. Her interests include ornithology, mountain climbing, reading and music (she played piano and cello).

After graduating from college, Scherman worked as a secretary for the Sunday Review of Literature in New York City from 1940–41, while also working as an editor for J. B. Lippincott & Co. during the same period. From 1941 to 1944 she worked at Life as a researcher and writer. From 1944 to 1949 she was a writer and editor at Book-of-the-Month Club, during which time she married Axel Rosin, who was also working there. She authored ten books, the first in 1954 and the last in 1987.

Bibliography[]

  • The Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of Toussaint Louverture (juvenile), 1954. An account of Toussaint Louverture.
  • Spring on an Arctic Island. 1956. Travel literature about a research trip to Bylot Island in 1954.
  • Catherine the Great (juvenile). 1957. About Catherine the Great.
  • The Sword of Siegfried (juvenile). 1959.
  • William Tell (juvenile). 1961.
  • The Long White Night. 1964.
  • Two Islands: Grand Manan and Sanibel. 1971. Travel literature.
  • Daughter of Fire: A Portrait of Iceland. 1976. Travel literature.
  • The Flowering of Ireland. 1981. History of Ireland 5th to 12th centuries.
  • The Birth of France: Warriors, Bishops, and Long-Haired Kings. 1987. A history of the Merovingian kings of France.

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References[]

  1. ^ "It's Good to Remember". The New York Times. September 20, 1964. Bernardine Kielty. of half‐Irish, half-Welsh descent and very much the individualist plunged into social work for underprivileged Jewish children although in her small town environment she had hardly known a Jew. Gradually, she became a part of a young New York intellectual group and married one of its members an earnest writer named Harry Scherman. They had two children and lived happily ever after.
  • Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2006 [1]
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