Brenda Webster

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Brenda Webster
Born1936 (age 87–88)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • critic
  • translator
LanguageEnglish
Alma materSwarthmore College, Barnard College, Columbia University, UC Berkeley
Notable worksVienna Triangle, The Beheading Game, The Last Good Freudian
SpouseIra M. Lapidus
RelativesEthel Schwabacher, George Oppen, Wolf Schwabacher
Website
www.brendawebster.com

Brenda Webster is an American writer, critic and translator. She is the author of five novels, including The Beheading Game (2006) and Vienna Triangle (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times.[1] Her most recent novel, After Auschwitz: A Love Story, published in 2013, is a story of an elderly man dealing with the early stages of dementia as he struggles to hold on to his memories and cope with his changing relationship to his wife.[2]

Webster is the current president of PEN West.[3]

  1. ^ "Scott Manning PR Website". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Interview with the author, May 2013
  3. ^ "PEN West Website". Archived from the original on June 4, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2009.