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Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter and a member of the New York intellectual scene. Life and career [ edit ] She was born as Theresa Slesinger in New York City , as the fourth child of Anthony Slesinger, a Hungarian-born dress manufacturer, and Augusta ( née Singer) Slesinger, a welfare worker who later (after 1931) became a prominent psychoanalyst.
Novelist and Hollywood screenwriter Tess Slesinger was born in New York on July 16, 1905. She published several works, including: The Unpossessedand Time: The Present. Slesinger died of cancer at age thirty-nine before the premiere of one of her final works, the acclaimed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Tess Slesinger could be said to have had everything but time: well-to-do parents who sacrificed in order to give her the best education at the Ethical Culture Society School in New York, Swarthmore College, and Columbia University; immediate and continued success when she started to write; a happy marriage and children. But her works show this success was not achieved without pain.
Oct 28, 2009 · Slesinger, Tess, 1905-1945. Publication date 1934 Topics Intellectuals Publisher New York, Simon and Schuster Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary ...
This dissertation argues that Nella Larsen, Tess Slesinger, and Jane Bowles, in a set of novels published between 1928 and 1943, all deployed laughter—not humor or comedy, but laughter itself—to express a critique of the rigid prescription of female subjectivity. In a historical window of epistemic instability, between the earlier dominance of humanist individualism and the subsequent dominance of humanist universalism, these authors reacted against nominally liberatory political ...
Slesinger, Tess (1905–1945)American novelist and short-story writer. Born in New York City in 1905; died in 1945; daughter of middle-class Jewish immigrant parents; attended the Ethical Culture School; studied at Swarthmore College, 1923–25; attended Columbia School of Journalism, taking Dorothy Scarborough 's course in the
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Tess Slesinger (1905–1945) was an American writer and screenwriter and a member of the New York intellectual scene. She was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School from September 1912 until June 1922, Swarthmore College and the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
