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Helen Bassine Yglesias (March 29, 1915 – March 28, 2008) was an American novelist. Early life. Yglesias was the youngest of seven children born to Solomon and Kate Bassine, both Yiddish -speaking immigrants from the Russian-controlled portion of Poland who lived in an apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Apr 7, 2008 · Helen Yglesias, Who Wrote of Women, Is Dead at 92. By Dennis Hevesi. April 7, 2008. Helen Yglesias, whose novels examined women’s lives in an array of settings and situations small towns,...
Writer Helen Yglesias explored the lives of New York Jewish women in her distinctive books. Born in 1915, she was the youngest of seven children to two Jewish immigrants and was raised in Brooklyn, NY.
Helen Yglesias (1915–2008) is the author of five novels and several works of nonfiction. A former literary editor of the Nation, she wrote for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and Harper’s, among many other publications. She lived in Maine and New York City.
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Helen Yglesias was the author of five published novels, the first written when she was a 54-year-old mother of three. Self-educated beyond high school, this daughter of Yiddish-speaking immigrants had jobs selling underwear, stuffing envelopes, teaching ballroom dancing, typing manuscripts, writing book reviews, and, eventually, editing.
Mar 31, 2008 · March 31, 2008. I haven't really known what to say about this, but my maternal grandmother, Helen Yglesias, died early Friday morning. It's a sad thing to have happen, but she was an old woman...
How They Lived: Helen Yglesias's 77 Novels of an American Faith sent absorbs the Jewish past, widening expectations for character and faith. Yglesias's women, concerning themselves with a humanly realized future, find that they also unify their roles as Jewish daughter, wife, mother, and cit-izen-activist.
