Marcia Satterthwaite Collection of the papers of John and Helen Cournos
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Cournos, Helen Sybil Norton, 1893-1959
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When Helen Kestner was born on 7 September 1893, in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Christian C Kestner, was 27 and her mother, Helen Louise McCarty, was 26. She married Alfred Wanner Satterthwaite about 1913, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1910 and New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 August 1959, i...
Cournos, John, 1881-1966
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John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (Иван Григорьевич Коршун; he himself used the form Johann Gregorevich for his original name) (6 March 1881 – 27 August 1966), was a writer and translator of Russian-Jewish background who spent his later life in exile. Cournos was born in Zhitomir, Russian Empire, and his first language was Yiddish; he studied Russian, German and Hebrew, with a tutor at home. When he was ten years old his family emigrated to Philadelphia, where he learned English. ...
