Borenstein, Audrey – 21
Subjects:
Creativity; friendship; letter writing; parallel lives; parenthood; preserving writings; society; spirituality; writing/the writing life
Writing Description:
LIFELINES: LETTERS 1977-2005 includes 351 letters Borenstein preserved as a vital portion of her literary estate. Most were written to friends she met from the 1950s on, in Illinois, Louisiana, Iowa and New York, kindred spirits from many walks of life whose professions range from the clergy to teaching, with whom she shared common interests in the arts, the humanities, and the physical and social sciences. LIFELINES celebrates the pleasures of letter writing and its powers of animating the past. Expressions of the workings of time and change and chance on human relationships, letters are irreplaceable shadings of the moral complexion of an earlier era.
Collection is entitled: LIFELINES: LETTERS 1977-2005.
Writing Type:
Letters
Gender:
Female
Birth Year:
1930
Death Year:
Occupation and Interests:
Writer; Adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology, 1964-86; author of ONE JOURNAL’S LIFE; SIMURGH; CHIMES OF CHANGE AND HOURS; REDEEMING THE SIN; 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 the ANTIOCH REVIEW; published short fiction in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies; published Journal writings, poetry and journalism.
Age(s):
47-75
Author Location(s):
New Paltz, New York
Writing Location(s):
Dates:
1977-2005
Handwritten:
Typed:
Yes
Digital:
Self-published:
Number of Pages, etc.:
502 pages, single-spaced, includes 351 letters.
Contact Person:
Audrey Borenstein
Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same
Address:
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Date Entered:
02/2006
Date Revised/Confirmed:
02/2007