Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein is best known for her non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust; Where She Came From; and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma. All three reviewed here:

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/265180/sexual-abuse-holocaust-survivor-epstein

In 2022 book, she published Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid.

Born in Prague, Helen grew up in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College High School, Hebrew University, and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, then began freelancing for diverse publications including the Sunday New York Times. Her profiles of legendary musicians are collected in the book Music Talks.

She began teaching journalism at New York University in 1974 and became the first woman in the department to be awarded tenure. In 1986, she left NYU to move to Massachusetts. She now lectures at universities; health organizations; high schools; synagogues, libraries and churches, and writes for the New England cultural website The Arts Fuse. Contact her through her website: helenepstein.com.