Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marjorie Housepian Dobkin

American writer

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 08-Feb-2013

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Marjorie Anais Housepian Dobkin (Armenian: ??????? ?????????-??????; New York City (1922-11-21)November 21, 1922 - Emerson, New Jersey (2013-02-08)February 8, 2013) was an author and an English professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.
Her books include the novel A Houseful of Love (a New York Times and New York Herald Tribune bestseller) and the history Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City.Housepian Dobkin was born in 1922 to Dr.
Moses Housepian and his wife Makrouhie, Armenian immigrants in New York City, two and a half months after her grandfather was killed by a Turkish soldier during the burning of Smyrna from which her grandmother fled as a refugee.
Her younger brother was the neurosurgeon Edgar Housepian.
She attended Barnard College, graduating in 1944.
She was a professor of literature and writing from 1957 to 1993, as well as associate dean of studies at Barnard from 1976 until 1993.
Her students included the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.She was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi prize of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia and was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Wilson College.