Josephine Herbst

Josephine Herbst, born in Sioux City, Iowa on March 5, 1892, was a novelist, historian, biographer, journalist, autobiographer, and literary critic who was active from 1923 to near the time of her death in 1969 in the United States.

After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1918, she moved to New York where she affiliated herself with a literary group that included her friend Genevieve Taggard and other writers involved with The Writer and The Liberator. During this time Herbst published her first short stories under the pseudonym Carlotta Geet in the magazine Smart Set. In 1922 she moved to Europe. While in Paris, in 1924 she met the writer John Herrmann, whom she married in 1926. In Paris she also made friends with Nathan Asch, Robert McAlmon and Ernest Hemingway. She returned to the United states to live in Pennsylvania in 1928. In 1936 she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Works

• Nothing is Sacred, 1928
• Money for Love, 1929
• Pity is Not Enough, 1933
• The Executioner Waits, 1934
• Rope of Gold, 1939
• Satan's Sargeants, 1941
• Somewhere the Tempest Fell, 1947
• New Green World, 1954
• The Starchild Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirs, 1991 (published posthumously)

External links

• Josephine Herbst at The Literary Encyclopedia