Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin () 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 and New York Herald TribuneWinnipeg Free Press 13/7/1957 p. 37 bestseller) and the history Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City.https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marjorie-housepian-2/the-smyrna-affair Kirkus Reviews
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, as well as associate dean of studies at Barnard from 1976 until 1993. Her students included the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.
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.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)
Work Her books include the novel A Houseful of Love (a New York Times and New York Herald Tribune bestseller) and the history Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City.
He history of Smyrna is considered meticulously researched.Russell, J. (2012). The Seh-lerai Language. National Association for Armenian Studies and Research. Harvard University. It is considered the "standard work on the burning and evacuation of Smyrna". Most scholars consider it conclusive.Hobbins, A. J. (2003). Paradise Lost: The Merchant Princes and the Destruction of Smyrna, 1922. Fontanus, 11, 96-128.
Awards and honors She was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi prize of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia Bulletin of the Institute for the Study of Genocide p. 6: In Memoriam notice and was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Wilson College.https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnae731barn/barnardalumnae731barn_djvu.txt Barnard Alumnae Fall 1983 p. 29
Bibliography A Houseful of Love (Random House, 1957) The Smyrna Affair (US version, Harcourt Brave Jovanovich, 1971; republished by Newmark Press under the title Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City) Smyrna 1922 (UK version, Faber and Faber, 1972) "The Unremembered Genocide" (article in Commentary) The Making of a Feminist: Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas (Kent State University Press, 1977) "George Horton and Mark L. Bristol: opposing forces in U.S. foreign policy, 1919–1923" (1983) Inside Out (written with Jean Cullen, Ivy Books, 1989)
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External links
Armenian Church website obituary notice. https://web.archive.org/web/20130816003635/http://www.armenianchurch-ed.net/news-and-media/news/marjorie-housepian-dobkin-1922-2013/] Article on Marjorie Housepian Dobkin in Armenian Wikipedia