Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Academic, novelist

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: East Orange, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 09-Oct-2003

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies.
In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of Amanda Cross.
These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide.