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Belva Plain

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Belva Plain · Arts & Literature

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1915, New York City, USA — 2010, Short Hills, New Jersey, USA

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United States

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Belva Plain is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

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Belva Plain (née Offenberg) was a best-selling American novelist whose family sagas, beginning with Evergreen (1978), often centered on the Jewish immigrant experience; twenty of her novels reached the New York Times bestseller list. A third-generation Jewish American, she was raised in New York City and wrote all her books in longhand.

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