Stella K. Hershan Explained

Stella K. Hershan
Birth Date:	February 7, 1915
Birth Place:	Vienna, Austria
Death Place:	New York City
Education:	New York University New School for Social Research
Occupation:	Writer
Parents:	Felix Kreidl Lucy Pick Kreidl
Spouse:	Rudolph Hershan
Children:	1

Stella K. Hershan (1915–2014) was an Austrian-American novelist and biographer who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a refugee^[1] from the Holocaust.^[2] Among her published works are two about Eleanor Roosevelt: A Woman of Quality^[3] and The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.^[1]

Hershan, born in Vienna, was the daughter of Felix Kreidl, a businessman, and Lucy Pick Kreidl. She married Rudolph Hershan, an engineer, in 1933. She graduated from New York University with a certificate in general education in 1962 and from the New School for Social Research with a certificate in human relations in 1968.^[1]

The Hershans had one child, a daughter, Lisa. Preceded in death by her husband, Hershan died in 2014 in New York City.^[1]

Bibliography

Biography

• A Woman of Quality, (1970)^[3]
• The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt (1993)^[1]
• Emigration, Emigration : Exilgeschichten (in German) (2004)^[4]
• Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten : Exilerzählungen = Memories Between Two Worlds (in German) (2006)^[5]

Novels

• The Naked Angel : A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon (1973)^[6]
• The Maiden of Kosovo (2003)^[7]
• In Freundschaft, Elisabeth : Roman (in German) (1992)^[8]
• Ein Kind der Revolution: Roman" (in German) (1992)^[9]

Hershan also contributed to journals in the United States and Austria.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography in Context:Stella K. Hershan. Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2002. June 2, 2019. subscription.
2. News: Hershan, Stella K.: Paid Death Notice. The New York Times. August 31, 2014. A22. .
3. Web site: A Woman of Quality. WorldCat . 96433.
4. Web site: Emigration, Emigration: Exilgeschichten. WorldCat . 77077342.
5. Web site: Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten Exilerzählungen . Memories Between Two Worlds. WorldCat . 318640759.
6. Web site: The Naked Angel: A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon. WorldCat . 16241441.
7. Web site: The Maiden of Kosovo. WorldCat . 163107764.
8. Web site: In Freundschaft, Elisabeth: Roman. WorldCat . 26295688.
9. Web site: Ein Kind der Revolution: Roman. WorldCat . 27192656.