[PW] Re: ? children's author Maria Gleit/Hertha Gleitsmann

[Dennis Lien]

At 03:24 PM 11/5/2006, ash966 at bitstream.net wrote:

>On Fri, November 3, 2006 12:00 pm, Dennis Lien said:
>
> > At 03:41 PM 10/31/2006, you wrote:
> >>Our info seeker is looking for biographical information on children's
> >>book author of the 1930's, mainly 40's, 50's-- Hertha Gleitsmann,
> >>pseudo. Maria Gleit.
> >
> >
> > Dates are 1909-1981, per WORLD BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX database.  I sent
> > Elizabeth offlist some citations from that which reputedly contain entries
> > for Gleit; all were in German only.
> >
> > Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
> >
>
>Dennis--
>
>Did you find any info in _A Bio-Bibliography of German-American Writers,
>1670-1970_? _Biography and Genealogy Master Index_ says she's in there,
>under "Hertha Gleitsmann". MNCAT says the book is at the Wilson Library.
>
>--Andrea Herman

I somehow missed that one.  She is there, with a pretty short
entry, which reads:

page 97:

GLEIT, MARIA (Maria Hofmann, orig. Hertha Gleitsman); b. 2-28-1909 in
Crimmitschau, Saxony.  Fled Nazi Germany to Switzerland, France, then
1941 to USA.  Resides in Switzerland.  Journalist, novelist.  Writes in
English and German.  (See Sternfeld-Tiedemann 1970).  WORKS:
Du hast kein Bett, mein Kind (nov.) (Zurich & NY, 1938); Erde im
Morgenwind (Zurich, 1938); Pierre Keeps Watch (NY, 1944); Katrina
(NY, 1945); Niko's Mountains (NY, 1946); Paul Tiber (Forester, NY, 1949).


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu