Shirley Kaufman | |
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Born | Shirley Kaufman Daleski June 5, 1923 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Died | September 25, 2016 San Francisco, California, U.S. | (aged 93)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Education | James A. Garfield High School |
Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
Genre | Poetry |
Children | 3 |
Shirley Kaufman Daleski (June 5, 1923 in Seattle – September 25, 2016 in San Francisco) was an American-Israeli poet and translator. [1]
Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University with Jack Gilbert.
She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.
Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels". [2]
Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, [3] Harper's, [4] The American Poetry Review, [5] and The New Yorker. [6]
She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93. [7]
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Born | Shirley Kaufman Daleski June 5, 1923 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Died | September 25, 2016 San Francisco, California, U.S. | (aged 93)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Education | James A. Garfield High School |
Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
Genre | Poetry |
Children | 3 |
Shirley Kaufman Daleski (June 5, 1923 in Seattle – September 25, 2016 in San Francisco) was an American-Israeli poet and translator. [1]
Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University with Jack Gilbert.
She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.
Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels". [2]
Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, [3] Harper's, [4] The American Poetry Review, [5] and The New Yorker. [6]
She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93. [7]
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