Jo Sinclair

Ruth silk (pseudonym Jo Sinclair, born July 1, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, † April 4, 1995 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania) was an American author.

Biography

Silk was born the fifth child of Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York City. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Nathan silk and Ida Kravetsky. Your parents moved in 1916 in her childhood to Cleveland, Ohio. Silk visited the John Hay High School, where she studied English and journalism. After graduation she took a job at first, but was then unemployed as a result of the Great Depression. She worked on it in a factory and in a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA ). Silk was hired as employees then for the Cleveland American Red Cross.

In addition to her work silk caught in their spare time with writing as an author. She wrote short stories and articles. In 1937 she sold under the pseudonym Jo Sinclair her first story at the Esquire, which appeared in the January issue of Esquire.

1945 Silk wrote the work Wasteland about the everyday life of American life of Jewish immigrants from Russia. She won with this novel, the Harper & Brothers competition and received the prize money in the amount of $ 10,000. This enabled her to write in the following years further books: Sing at My Wake (1951, McGraw ), The Changeling (1955, McGraw ) and Anna Teller (1960, McKay ).

Furthermore silk wrote besides these four novels, several short stories and an output of memoirs The Seasons: Death and Transfiguration ( Feminist Press, 1993). On April 4, 1995 Silk died at 81 years of cancer in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

Works (selection)

• Wasteland (1945 )
• The Changelings (1955, McGraw )
• Anna Teller (1960, McKay )