Self, Elaine, 1921-1988
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Elaine Rosenbloom Adams Self was born in Middletown, Ohio in 1921. She attended Penn State University and graduated from Queens College. In 1944, she married Robert M. Krapp, who changed his name to Adams in 1946. They were divorced in 1958. She remarried Peter John Otter Self in 1960; they were divorced in 1982. She always wanted to be a writer, and late in life, she wrote a cookbook called A Passion for Garlic with her sister-in-law, Penny Drinkwater, and she edited with Rose Grant, a book titled Can You Speak English, about a program for teaching English to immigrant women. Elaine Self died in London on April 4, 1988.
From the description of Elaine Self papers, 1949-1986. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64052141
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