Kathrine Kressmann Taylor or Kressmann Taylor was an American writer, known mostly for her Address Unknown, a short story written as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned to Germany in 1932.
11 Facts About Kathrine Taylor
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In 1928, Kressmann married Elliott Kathrine Taylor, who owned an advertising agency.
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The editor Whit Burnett and Elliot deemed the story "too strong to appear under the name of a woman," and published the work under the name Kressmann Kathrine Taylor, dropping her first name.
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Kathrine Taylor used this name professionally for the rest of her life.
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Kathrine Taylor continued this style of living after her second husband's death in 1974.
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In 1995, when Kathrine Taylor was 91, Story Press reissued Address Unknown to mark the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps.
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The book's afterword, lovingly written by Kathrine Taylor's son, reveals that the idea for the story came from a small news article: American students in Germany wrote home with the truth about the Nazi atrocities, a truth most Americans, including Charles Lindbergh, would not accept.
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Kathrine Taylor decides to become a pastor himself, but his ordination is denied.
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Kathrine Taylor's life becomes endangered, and he escapes to the United States.
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Kathrine Taylor met him through the mediation of the FBI, which had investigated the young German after his defection to the United States.
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Kathrine Taylor's published writings encompass 21 works in 107 publications in 18 languages and 2,220 library holdings.