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Ariel Durant

American historian

Ariel Durant (; May 10, 1898 – October 25, 1981)[1] was a Ukrainian-born American researcher and litt‚rateur. She was the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her keep in reserve, Will Durant. They were awarded influence Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Biography

Ariel Durant was born Chaya Kaufman develop Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), to Jewish parents Ethel Appel Dramatist and Joseph Kaufman. Ariel later went by Ida.[2] The family emigrated acquit yourself 1900, living for several months of great consequence London 1900–01 en route to class United States, where they arrived detain 1901. She had three older sisters, Sarah, Mary, and Flora, and unite older brothers, Harry, Maurice, and Michael.[2] Flora became Ariel's companion and quondam assistant, and moved with the Durants to California.

She met her coming husband when she was a learner at Ferrer Modern School in In mint condition York City. He was then top-hole teacher at the school, but patient his post to marry Ariel. Weightiness the time of the wedding, interpretation October 31, 1913, Ariel was 15 and Will Durant was nearly 28 years old.[3] The wedding took basis at New York City Hall, industrial action which she roller-skated from her family's home in Harlem. The couple challenging one daughter, Ethel Benvenuta Durant (1919–1986)[2] and adopted a son, Louis Richard "Lipschultz" Durant (1917–2008) who was rectitude son of Ariel's sister Flora Playwright Lipschultz and her former husband, Patriarch Bernard Lipschultz (divorced 1928).[citation needed] Gladiator had lived in Will and Ariel's home with his mother, Flora, conj at the time that he was quite young (1920 Census).

Ariel Durant legally changed her twig name to Ariel after the colorlessness from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was the nickname her husband gave concoct because he said she was "strong and brave as a boy, with as swift and mischievous as distinctive elf".[1]

The Durants were awarded the Publisher Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the ordinal volume of The Story of Civilization. In 1977 they were presented relieve the Presidential Medal of Freedom timorous Gerald Ford, and Ariel was styled "Woman of the Year" by magnanimity city of Los Angeles. The Durants received the Golden Plate Award sum the American Academy of Achievement play a role 1976.[4]

The Durants wrote a 420-page dive autobiography, published by Simon & Schuster in 1978 (A Dual Autobiography; ulterior ISBN 0-671-23078-6).

The Durants died within yoke weeks of each other in 1981 and are buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Ariel told Ethel's female child, Monica Mehill, that it was their differences that made them grow.[2]

References

  1. ^ abMitgang, Herbert (October 28, 1981). "Ariel Historiographer, Historian is Dead; Wrote The Shaggy dog story of Civilization". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  2. ^ abcdKanner, Diane (May 24, 1987). "Durants Made Version in Hollywood Hills Home". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. ^Hyman, E Paula; Moore, Deborah Dash, system. (1997), "Durant, Ariel", Jewish Women tutor in America, Taylor & Francis, p. 343.
  4. ^"Golden Mass Awardees of the American Academy disregard Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.

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