Marjorie Housepian Dobkin Explained

Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
Education:Barnard College (BA); Teacher's College (MA)
Birth Name:Marjorie Anaïs Housepian
Birth Date:21 November 1922
Birth Place:Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Death Place:Emerson, New Jersey, U.S.
Citizenship:American
Occupation:Writer, educator
Known For:Author of A Houseful of Love and
Father:Moses Housepian
Mother:Makrouhie Housepian (née Ashjian)
Relatives:Edgar Housepian (brother)
Spouse:
  • Donald Johnson (divorced; 1 child)
  • Machbi Dobkin (1957–2004; his death; 2 children)
Signature:Signed Houseful.jpg
Signature Size:185px

Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin (1922 11, mf=yes) was an author and an English professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Her books include the novel A Houseful of Love (a New York Times[1] and New York Herald Tribune[2] bestseller) and the history Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City.[3]

Biography

Housepian Dobkin was born in 1922 to Dr. Moses Housepian and his wife Makrouhie Housepian (née Ashjian), Armenian immigrants in New York City, two and a half months after her grandfather was killed by a Turkish soldier during the burning of Smyrna from which her grandmother fled as a refugee. Her younger brother was the neurosurgeon Edgar Housepian. She attended Barnard College, graduating in 1944. She was a professor of literature and writing from 1957 to 1993,[4] as well as associate dean of studies at Barnard from 1976 until 1993. Her students included the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.[5]

Her academic career included: instructor in English at Barnard College (1957–1988), associate dean of studies (1976–1993), professor of English (1988–1993), and 1993–2013: professor emerita (1993–2013).

She lived near Barnard at 425 Riverside Drive.[6]

Awards and honors

She was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi prize of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia[7] and was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Wilson College.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. http://studyofgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/isg_48.pdf Bulletin of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, p. 6: In Memoriam notice
  2. https://newspaperarchive.com/winnipeg-free-press-jul-13-1957-p-37 Winnipeg Free Press 13/7/1957 p. 37
  3. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marjorie-housepian-2/the-smyrna-affair Kirkus Reviews
  4. Web site: Armenian Church . www.armenianchurch-ed.net . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130816003635/http://www.armenianchurch-ed.net/news-and-media/news/marjorie-housepian-dobkin-1922-2013/ . 16 August 2013 . dead.
  5. Web site: Errol Flynn was missing character – Sun Sentinel. August 10, 2008.
  6. page 47, Kessabtzis in U.S.A. and Canada 1990 30th Edition, directory of Kessabtzis (Armenians from her father Dr. Moses M. Housepian's hometown of Kessab, and their descendants) published by the Kessab Educational Association of Los Angeles, Inc. (a California nonprofit corporation)
  7. http://studyofgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/isg_48.pdf Bulletin of the Institute for the Study of Genocide p. 6: In Memoriam notice
  8. https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnae731barn/barnardalumnae731barn_djvu.txt Barnard Alumnae Fall 1983 p. 29

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