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Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Massachusetts, United States. ==Biography== Epstein was born to Franci and Kurt Epstein November 27, 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, raised in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College High School in 1965. Epstein was a student at Hebrew University when, during the summer of 1968, she traveled to Prague and was caught in the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Her first-person account of the invasion was published in ''The Jerusalem Post'', where she later worked as a university correspondent for two years. Her early work there determined her career in writing non-fiction. In 1971, she graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and began writing cultural reportage for the ''New York Times Sunday edition as well as many national magazines, specializing in profiles of classical musicians including Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein and Yo Yo Ma. Several of these are collected in her book ''Music Talks'' (McGraw-Hill 1987) and republished as an e-book in 2010. Epstein is married to consultant Patrick Mehr and has two grown sons, Daniel and Sam. She has been a teacher since 1974, was the first tenured woman professor in New York University's Journalism Department. She currently lectures internationally on literary non-fiction, particularly memoir and family history. She reviews Boston area and Berkshire County cultural events online for () and does occasional book reviewing for the "New York Times" and the ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Epstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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