Borenstein, Audrey – 20
Subjects:
Creativity; family life; Jungian psychology; life writing; literature; parallel lives; society; spirituality; teaching; writing; the writing life
Writing Description:
For Audrey Borenstein and Elizabeth Helfman (1911-2001), lifetime practitioners of many forms of the literary arts, letters and Journals are vital portions of a writer’s literary estate. Borenstein sees in their lively exchanges of shoptalk and stories a saga of the writing life in late 20th-century America. “Writing is an affliction,” she wrote her friend, “but a fine madness, too.” She reflected that “everywhere, invisible weavers are at work at myriad labors of love, creating and connecting; and it is this we must fix our minds upon.” Her wish for her friend-in-writing was “a flowing pen, a manuscript that is the true lettering of your soul.”
Collection is entitled: AUDREY BORENSTEIN’S LETTERS TO ELIZABETH HELFMAN, 1978-2000.
Writing Type:
Letters
Gender:
Female
Birth Year:
1930
Death Year:
Occupation and Interests:
Writer; adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology, 1964-1986; author of ONE JOURNAL’S LIFE; SIMURGH, A NOVEL-IN-THE-ROUND; CHIMES OF CHANGE AND HOURS; REDEEMING THE SIN: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND LITERATURE; OLDER WOMEN IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA: A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CUSTOM: AN ESSAY ON SOCIAL CODES, a translation of Ferdinand Tönnies’s DIE SITTE; co-author of THROUGH THE YEARS: A CHRONICLE OF CONGREGATION AHAVATH ACHIM, 5725-5750; published essays, among them “The Spy in the Citadel” in the Summer 2003 issue of ANTIOCH REVIEW; published short fiction in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies; published Journal writings, poetry and journalism.
Age(s):
48-70
Author Location(s):
New Paltz, New York
Writing Location(s):
Dates:
1978-2000
Handwritten:
Typed:
Yes
Digital:
Self-published:
Number of Pages, etc.:
303 pages, single-spaced, includes 140 letters.
Contact Person:
Audrey Borenstein
Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same
Address:
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Email:
Date Entered:
03/2005
Date Revised/Confirmed:
02/2007