Stella K. Hershan (19152014) was an Austrian-American novelist and biographer who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a refugee from the Holocaust. Among her published works are two about Eleanor Roosevelt: A Woman of Quality and The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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.
The Hershans had one child, a daughter, Lisa. Preceded in death by her husband, Hershan died in 2014 in New York City.
Bibliography Biography A Woman of Quality, (1970) The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt (1993) Emigration, Emigration : Exilgeschichten (in German) (2004) Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten : Exilerzählungen = Memories Between Two Worlds (in German) (2006)
Novels The Naked Angel : A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon (1973) The Maiden of Kosovo (2003) In Freundschaft, Elisabeth : Roman (in German) (1992) Ein Kind der Revolution: Roman (in German) (1992)
Hershan also contributed to journals in the United States and Austria.
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