Ann Judith Birstein (1927–2017) was an American Fulbright Scholar, novelist, memoirist, essayist, film critic, blogger, and professor. 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. She was a professor of Barnard College.
Discipline:
Literature
Ann Birstein
Discipline:
Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1965, 1967, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984
Studios
Sorosis
Ann Birstein worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…