Kathrine Taylor | |
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Born | Kathrine Kressmann August 19, 1903 |
Died | July 14, 1996 | (aged 92)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Oregon |
Occupation(s) | Author, novelist |
Notable work | Address Unknown |
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor or Kressmann Taylor (1903 in Portland, Oregon – 14 July 1996) was an American writer, known mostly for her Address Unknown (1938), a short story written as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned to Germany in 1932. It is credited with exposing, early on, the dangers of Nazism to the American public.