Thursday, September 27, 2018

"Address Unknown" by Kressmann Taylor

"Address Unknown" was a powerful story that was first published in Story Magazine in 1938. The publisher of the magazine and the author's husband thought that the story was too strong to appear under a woman's name. I do not understand. Women had been publishing strong literature under their own names for years at that time. The author's name was Kathrine Kressman Taylor. It was an indictment of the Nazis in Germany. The magazine in which it was published quickly sold out. It has since been published in several languages. The author published other works, and she became a professor of creative writing. She was the first  woman to be granted tenure at Gettysburg College.

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