Stella K. Hershan
Stella K. Hershan was an Austrian-American novelist and biographer who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a refugee from the Holocaust. Among her published works are two about Eleanor Roosevelt: A Woman of Quality and The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Hershan, born in Vienna, was the daughter of Felix Kreidl, a businessman, and Lucy Pick Kreidl. She married Rudolph Hershan, an engineer, in 1933. She graduated from New York University with a certificate in general education in 1962 and from the New School for Social Research with a certificate in human relations in 1968.
The Hershans had one child, a daughter, Lisa. Preceded in death by her husband, Hershan died in 2014 in New York City.
Biography
A Woman of Quality, The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt Emigration, Emigration : Exilgeschichten- ''Erinnerungen Zwischen Zwei Welten : Exilerzählungen = Memories Between Two Worlds''
Novels
The Naked Angel : A Novel about the Times of Metternich and Napoleon The Maiden of Kosovo In Freundschaft, Elisabeth : Roman Ein Kind der Revolution: RomanHershan also contributed to journals in the United States and Austria.