Kathrine Taylor
Kress man Taylor ( * 1903 in Portland, Oregon; † July 1996, real name Kathrine Taylor, born Kathrine Kress man) was an American writer.
Life
Kress man Taylor was a professional copywriter and journalist. After the publication of her second book, she taught at Gettysburg College. Later she lived in Florence and Minneapolis. After her best-known work addressee decades after its first publication, an international success had become unknown, she spent her last years in his own words so happy to write autographs and giving interviews. The mother of three children, died in July 1996 ..
Services
Taylor's most famous work addressee unknown (English: Address Unknown ) appeared in 1938, but was known until decades later in Europe. Taylor chose a pseudonym because her publisher said that a political body of a woman would not be taken seriously. The book describes the changes brought about the rise of National Socialism in Germany. It depicts a fictional exchange of letters between a Jewish, living in San Francisco art dealer and his returning to Germany friend and business partner. The German is becoming increasingly enthusiastic about Nazism, finally, the relationship between the two begins to transform into open hostility.
First published in 1938 in the U.S. magazine story, made addressee unknown for a broad public discussion. In 1939, the story was published as a book, reached a circulation of 50,000 copies in the U.S. and was banned in Germany. 1995, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary liberation of the death camps, the book in Story Press Books was launched publishing again; this is to date the last English edition. The book became an international success. It has been translated into 15 languages , in France alone, 600,000 copies were sold. 2001 was finally published a German version, which also ended up on the bestseller lists.
Taylor published in 1942 another book Day of no return, the fate of the German Christians treated in the resistance against Nazism through the stories of real existing Leopold Bernhard.
Works
- Address Unknown (1938 )
- Until that day (1942 )