Matthew Josephson was an American journalist and author of works on nineteenth-century French literature and American political and business history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
10 Facts About Matthew Josephson
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Matthew Josephson was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 15,1899, to Jewish immigrant parents Julius and Sarah Josephson.
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Matthew Josephson's father was from Iasi, Romania and his mother from Rostov-na-Donu, Russia.
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Julius Josephson was a printer who became a bank president before his death in 1925.
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Matthew Josephson graduated from Columbia University and married Hannah Geffen in 1920.
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Matthew and Hannah Josephson collaborated on Al Smith: Hero of the Cities in 1969.
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Matthew Josephson was a regular contributor to The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and the Saturday Evening Post.
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Matthew Josephson wrote two memoirs, Life Among the Surrealists and Infidel in the Temple.
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Matthew Josephson died on March 13,1978, at the Community Hospital in Santa Cruz, California.
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Matthew Josephson's collected papers are in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.