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   Laura Z. Hobson. Laura Zametkin Hobson (June 19, 1900 – February 28, 1986) was an American writer, best known for her novels Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Consenting Adult (1975). [1] Early life and career. Laura Kean Zametkin was born on June 19, 1900 [note 1] in Manhattan, New York City.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Laura-Z-HobsonLaura Z. Hobson | Jewish-American, Novelist, Feminist

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   Laura Z. Hobson was an American novelist and short-story writer noted for her novel Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), a best-selling study of anti-Semitism. The daughter of Jewish socialist parents, she was educated at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and married Thayer Hobson in 1930.

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4. jwa.org › encyclopedia › articleLaura Z. Hobson | Jewish Women's Archive

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   Writer Laura Z. Hobson is best known for her book Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), about anti-Semitism in America, which was turned into the Oscar winning film starring Gregory Peck. Her unconventional life as a single mother of two in the 1930s was reflected in her writing, as well as in Consenting Adult (1975), about a mother’s growing ...

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   • Laura Zametkin Hobson (June 19, 1900 – February 28, 1986) was an American writer, best known for her novels Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Consenting Adult (1975). Laura Kean Zametkin was born on June 19, 1900 [note 1] in Manhattan, New York City.

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   • Laura Z. Hobson was born in New York City. Her father worked as the editor of the Forverts, and her mother wrote for Der Yidisher Tog. Hobson studied at Cornell and briefly married in 1930, co-writing two Westerns with her husband before divorcing in 1935. She then adopted one child and gave birth to a second, raising both as a single mother.

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   How many books did Laura Hobson write?

   • Following publication of Untold Millions, Hobson wrote two acclaimed volumes of autobiography: Laura Z: A Life (1983), which concludes with the publication of Gentleman's Agreement in 1947; and the unfinished Laura Z: A Life, Years of Fulfillment, with an afterword by Christopher Z. Hobson, which appeared posthumously in 1986.

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   When did Laura Zametkin divorce Thayer Hobson?

   • On July 23, 1930, Laura Zametkin married Thayer Hobson, who in 1931 became president of the William Morrow and Company publishing house. The Hobsons were divorced in 1935. [citation needed] In 1937, Hobson adopted an infant son, whom she named Michael.

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6. www.nytimes.com › 1986/03/02 › obituariesLAURA Z. HOBSON, AUTHOR, DIES AT 85 - The New York Times

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   Mar 2, 1986 · Laura Z. Hobson, the author of the acclaimed 1947 novel on anti-Semitism in America, ''Gentleman's Agreement,'' died of cancer at New York Hospital Friday night. She was 85 years old and had...

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   Sep 10, 2015 · Laura Z. Hobson (June 19, 1900 – February 28, 1986) was an American fiction writer best known for Gentleman’s Agreement and the subsequent award-winning film of the same name. Born Laura Kean Zametkin in New York City, she and her twin sister Alice grew up on Long Island.

8. www.nytimes.com › 2022/08/18 › booksWhat Was the ‘It Book’ of Summer 75 Years Ago?

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   Aug 18, 2022 · Aug. 18, 2022. Seventy-five years ago this month, the book at the top of the fiction best-seller list was “Gentleman’s Agreement,” by Laura Z. Hobson, which The Times would later call a...

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   Laura Z. Hobson (1900–1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. The daughter of Jewish immigrants, she is best known for her novels Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), which deals with anti-Semitism in postwar America, and Consenting Adult (1975), about a mother coming to terms with her son’s homosexuality, which was based upon her ...