Rhoda Truax


Rhoda Truax Silberman was an American author.

Biography

Born Rhoda Truax in New York City to Justice Charles Henry Truax of the New York State Supreme Court and his wife, Caroline Sanders, she was a graduate of the Horace Mann School and Barnard College in New York City. She was the sister of arts administrator and cookbook author and editor, Carol Truax. Rhoda Truax married twice, firstly to Dr Robert Henry Aldrich of Boston in 1924 and later, to Henry R. Silberman, a businessman of Boston, in 1955. She joined the League of American Writers in 1938. In 1950, Robert Heineman alleged that Truax had been a member of the Communist Party between 1943-1949.
Truax wrote 12 novels and historical books, the best known being The Doctors Warren of Boston, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1968. She had lived in Colorado Springs since 1992 and prior to that was a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts for many decades.

Selected published works

Hospital, E.P. Dutton and Co, 1932Doctors Carry the Keys, E.P. Dutton and Co, 1933Barry Scott, M.D: A novel, E.P. Dutton, 1935The Accident Ward Mystery, Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1937 This Dynasty of Doctors, Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc, Indianapolis, 1940Green is the Golden Tree, Bobbs-Merril, Indianapolis, 1943Joseph Lister, Father of Modern Surgery, Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis and New York, 1944The Doctors Jacobi, Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1952True Adventures of Doctors, Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1954 With Equal Grace, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1964The Doctors Warren of Boston: First Family of Surgery, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1968