Priscilla Hiss

Priscilla Hiss
Born
Priscilla Harriet Fansler

(1903-10-13)October 13, 1903
Evanston, Illinois
DiedOctober 14, 1984(1984-10-14) (aged 81)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College (BA)
Yale University (MA)
Occupations
  • art teacher
  • book editor
Political partySocialist, alleged Communist, later Village Independent Democrats
Spouses
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(m. 1925; div. 1927)​
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(m. 1929)​
ChildrenTimothy Hobson, Tony Hiss
Parent(s)Thomas Lafayette Fansler, Willa Roland Spruill

Priscilla Hiss (October 13, 1903 – October 14, 1984), born Priscilla Fansler and first married as Priscilla Hobson, was a 20th-century American teacher and book editor, best known as the wife of Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist and former State Department official whose innocence she supported with testimony throughout his two, highly publicized criminal trials in 1949.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Blair, William G. (15 October 1984). "Priscilla Hiss, Who Defended Husband in Trials, Dies at 81". New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Priscilla Hiss, Alger Hiss' Wife, Dies at 81 Years". Washington Post. 17 October 1984. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. ^ Hiss, Tony (1999). The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir. Alfred E. Knopf. pp. 16 ("Prossy"), 35 (courtship), 36 ("Hill"), 37 (Quakerisms, Roberta Murray Fansler), 89 (Buttenweiser, Bernard). ISBN 9780375401275. Retrieved 29 October 2017.