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Fannie Hurst

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Fannie Hurst


Born
in Hamilton, Ohio, The United States
October 19, 1885

Died
February 23, 1968

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Fannie Hurst was born in Ohio, grew up in St. Louis and spent her adult life in New York City. She is the author of 17 novels and more than 250 short stories, as well as plays, screenplays, memoirs, essays and articles. Her best-remembered works are those turned into films, including: Imitation of Life, Back Street, Humoresque, The Younger Generation, and Young at Heart. She was active in a variety of progressive Jewish, social justice, labor, peace and women’s organizations. A lifelong philanthropist, Hurst willed her considerable estate to her alma mater Washington University and to Brandeis University.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 864 ratings · 124 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
Imitation of Life
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3.55 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1932 — 35 editions
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Back Street
3.62 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1931 — 42 editions
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Star-Dust
3.60 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1921 — 62 editions
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Lummox
3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1923 — 26 editions
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The Stories of Fannie Hurst...
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Humoresque
3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009
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The Vertical City
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 68 editions
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Five And Ten
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1929 — 8 editions
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Gaslight Sonatas
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1918 — 69 editions
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Mannequin
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1926 — 4 editions
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“I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.”
― Fannie Hurst
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“Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”
― Fannie Hurst
tags: writers
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“Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”
― Fannie Hurst
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