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Arts & Literature
Laura Z. Hobson
Who
Laura Z. Hobson · Arts & Literature
What
Author
When
1900, New York City, United States — 1986, New York City, United States
Where
United States
Biography
Laura Z. Hobson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author
How & why
Laura Z. Hobson was an American novelist best known for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), a bestseller exposing genteel antisemitism in postwar America, adapted into the Oscar-winning film. The daughter of Russian Jewish socialist immigrants (born Zametkin), she was Jewish and drew on that experience in her work. Her fiction repeatedly confronted prejudice and social hypocrisy.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Authors
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