| LC control no. | n 79077247 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3561.A83 |
| Personal name heading | Kaufman, Bel |
| Variant(s) | Kaufman, Belle Кауфман, Бел |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Odesa (Ukraine) Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1911-05-10 |
| Death date | 2014-07-25 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists High school teachers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Author's Up the down staircase, 1965, c1964. 678 field information, July 28, 2014 (teaching English in college) New York times (online), viewed July 28, 2014 (in obituary published July 25: Bel Kaufman; Belle Kaufman; b. May 10, 1911, Berlin; grew up in Odessa; moved the U.S. with her family at age 12 and settled in the Bronx; in the 1940s, in order to sell a story to Esquire, which took a dim view of submissions by women, she began signing her work with the more androgynous first name Bel; d. Friday [July 25, 2014], Manhattan, aged 103; former New York City schoolteacher whose classic first novel, Up the down staircase, was hailed as a stunningly accurate portrait of life in an urban school when it was published in 1965) |
| Associated language | eng |
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