Strunsky, Rose

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Rose Strunsky was born in Russia in 1884. Her family emigrated to the United States, first to New York City and then to San Francisco, where she attended Stanford University. Along with her older sister, Anna Strunsky, she was active in socialist politics and San Francisco's literary scene. The sisters travelled in Russia in 1905, and lived in Greenwich Village in New York in the 1910s. Rose Strunsky married Louis Lorwin in 1920. Throughout her life she worked as a translator; her translations include The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (Knopf, 1917) and Leon Trotsky's Literature and Revolution (International Publishers, 1925). Rose Strunsky Lorwin died in New York in 1963.

Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre Minnesota in 1885. After graduating from Yale University in 1908, Lewis worked as a freelance writer, reporter and editor in various towns before working as an editor in New York. His first commercially successful novel, Main Street, was published in 1920. In 1926, Lewis was awarded a Pulizter Prize, which he refused. He accepted a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. Lewis's novels include Babbit (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). Lewis died in 1951 in Rome.

From the guide to the Rose Strunsky Lorwin Papers, ca. 1910 - 1911, (© 2012 Fales Library and Special Collections)

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creatorOf Rose Strunsky Lorwin Papers, ca. 1910 - 1911 Fales Library & Special Collections
referencedIn Century Company records New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Rose Pastor Stokes Papers, Bulk, 1913-1933, 1905-1933 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Burcham, Emilie Henry. Emilie Henry Burcham photograph album, 1893-1920. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933. Papers, 1905-1933. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
referencedIn Guide to the Rose Pastor Stokes Papers, 1905-1933 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Emilie Henry Burcham photograph album, 1893-1920 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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correspondedWith Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 person
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associatedWith Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933. person
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