Ann Birstein
Ann Judith Birstein was an American Fulbright Scholar, novelist, memoirist, essayist, film critic, blogger, and professor.Biography
She was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City and was the daughter of the notable Rabbi Bernard Birstein of the Actor's Temple. She attended Queens College and published her first novel, Star of Glass, in 1950 at the age of twenty three. She was married to and later divorced the literary critic Alfred Kazin, with whom she had a daughter, Cathrael Kazin. Birstein was also stepmother to professor and author Michael Kazin. She was a former professor of Barnard College.
She died at home in New York on May 24, 2017, following a long illness.Novels
