Fannie Hurst biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Fannie Hurst

Author Name:

Fannie Hurst

Born As:

Other Names:

Born:

18 Oct 1889

Died:

23 Feb 1968




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Selected Works:

Story Collections:

Just Around the Corner - 1914
Every Soul Hath Its Song - 1916
Gaslight Sonatas - 1918
Humoresque - 1919
The Vertical City - 1922
Song of Life - Knopf, 1927
Procession - 1929
We are Ten - 1937

Novels:

Stardust: The Story of an American Girl - 1921
Lummox - 1923
Mannequin - Knopf, 1926
Appassionata - Knopf 1926
A President is Born - 1928
Five and Ten - 1929
Back Street - 1931
Imitation of Life - 1933
Anitra's Dance - 1934
Great Laughter - 1936
Lonely Parade - 1942
Hallelujah - 1944
The Hands of Veronica - 1947
Anywoman - 1950
The Man with One Head - 1951
Family! - 1960
God Must Be Sad - 1961
Fool, Be Still - 1964

Autobiography:
Anatomy of Me: A Wonderer in Search of Herself - 1958

Miscellaneous:
No Food with My Meals - 1935
White Christmas - 1942                          
Husand Jacques S. Danielson                          
Among the first to join the Lucy Stone League, an organization that fought for women to preserve their maiden names.

National Advisory Committee to the Works Progress Administration - 1940
Delegate to the World Health Organization - 1952.

Hosted a talk show out of New York  - Showcase  - 1958, discussions of homosexuality and was one of the few on which homosexual men spoke for themselves rather than being debated by a panel of "experts.                          
The theme song to the 1970 Mel Brooks comedy The Twelve Chairs includes the lines:

"Hope for the best, expect the worst. 
You could be Tolstoy or Fannie Hurst."