Laura Z. Hobson
Laura Z. Hobson · Arts & Literature
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1900, New York City, United States — 1986, New York City, United States
United States
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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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