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James Stern (writer)

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in the south of England. After working in Southern Rhodesia as a young man, he worked for his family's bank in London and Germany, which he loathed. He escaped to Paris, where he met his German wife Tania Kurella, whom he married in 1935. They moved to New York in 1939, returned to England in the
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He had many friends with whom he kept up a lifelong correspondence, preserved in the James Stern archive at the
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once remarked to Stern, "My God, you've known everybody, his wife, his boyfriend, and his natural issue!"
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He collaborated with his wife Tania on many translations from German.
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The son of a British cavalry officer of Jewish descent and an
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Malcolm Cowley
Anglo-Irish
County Meath
Wixenford School
Wiltshire
The Hidden Damage
U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey
W. H. Auden
New York Times
New Republic
J. D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye
British Library
Christopher Isherwood
Djuna Barnes
Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller
A View from the Bridge
"The Stories of James Stern (1968)"
The Neglected Books Page
Online article
James Stern papers
University of Maryland libraries
Works by James Stern
Open Library
Categories
1904 births
1993 deaths
People educated at Wixenford School
20th-century British novelists

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