Hanau, Stella, 1890-1972

Dance card, undated

Born Stella Bloch, New York City, 1890; B.A. English, Barnard, 1911; married Leo Hanau 1923 (divorced 1940s); one son. Press agent, publicity manager for several "experimental" theatres, New York City, circa 1920s, including the Greenwich Village Theatre and Neighborhood Playhouse, and Provincetown Playhouse (Mass.); co-authored, with Helen Deutsch, The Provincetown: A Story of the Theatre (1931); managed Paul Robeson's first concert; published playbills, press releases, and similar material. Involved in suffrage and birth control movements; editor, Birth Control Review (1929-33); educational director, National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, D.C. (1935-38); editor and director of publications, American Birth Control League, D.C. (1933-35). Staff editor, Federal Writer's Project, Works Progress Administration (1938-42); Information Specialist, War Production Board, 1942-45, Chief Copy Editor, Department of Commerce, 1945-49. Self- employed as editor, New York City (1949-72); worked with friend and associate, Hella Bernays (Sigmund Freud's niece) on psychiatry books.

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