Dorothy Sterling
Historian, Author
1913 – 2008
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Who was Dorothy Sterling?
Dorothy Sterling was an American writer and historian. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years, including work for the Federal Writers’ Project.
In 1937 she married Philip Sterling, also a writer. Her daughter, Anne Fausto-Sterling, is a noted biologist, the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, and is married to playwright Paula Vogel.
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- Born
- Nov 23, 1913
New York City - Also known as
- Dorothy Dannenberg
- Spouses
- Philip Sterling
(1937/05/14 - )
- Philip Sterling
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Barnard College
( - 1934) - Wellesley College
- Barnard College
- Employment
- Time Inc.
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Dec 1, 2008
Wellfleet
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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