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Madeleine B. Stern

Born

in New York , The United States

July 01, 1912

Died

August 18, 2007

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Although she traveled widely, Madeleine B. Stern remained a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker. She was a graduate of Barnard College, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and had a Master's Degree from Columbia University.

She began to write at the age of eight when the children on her block wanted to act out an original play. After that came many articles, stories and poems during her high school and college years. When she turned to serious writing, she concentrated on biographies of American Women.

Miss Stern combined her career as a writer with buying and selling old and rare books. She co-authored eleven books on books with business partner, Leona Rostenberg. Their book, Old Books, Rare Friends hit the best sellers list in 1997. ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 2,783 ratings · 369 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Madeleine B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg 3.87 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition 3.82 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business by Madeleine B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heads & Headlines; The Phrenological Fowlers 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Purple Passage: The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1953 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books Have Their Fates by Madeleine B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg 2.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Margaret Fuller liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1962 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books and Book People in 19th Century America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“[Nineteenth-century professional women's] end was pertinent and and timely--economic independence. To achieve that end, they upheld, unconsciously as often as consciously, women's most vivid tricolor: freedom of work, equality in the rewards of work, fraternity in trade and in profession. And though, with such a feather pinned to their jaunty caps, they fought the bloodless revolution of the nineteenth century, their contemporaries and sometimes themselves were unaware of what they had accomplished.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America

tags: women-s-economic-freedom

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“[Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition

tags: female-authors, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, writing-process

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“The time had come to capture thought once again in a net of words.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition

tags: article-writing, words, writing, writing-quotes

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