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About the Author
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Works by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
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- New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York, USA
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- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Hunter College (BA|)
- Occupations
- historian
biographer
editor-in-chief - Organizations
- Classics Illustrated
- Short biography
- Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht was born in New York City.
She earned a bachelor's degree from Hunter College in and worked as an editor for the Glen Oaks News and This Month magazine. She went on to become a freelance writer and an assistant editor at Gilberton, the publishers of Classics Illustrated comic books, where she worked until By the end of her tenure there, she was editor-in-chief and had created spin-off titles like Classics Illustrated Junior and other nonfiction comics like The World Around Us.
In , she married Herbert Feuerlicht, a sculptor, with whom she had a son. In , Roberta published her first historical work, Andrews’ Raiders.
Feuerlicht gandhi biography for kids After sporadic violence broke out, Gandhi announced the end of the resistance movement, to the dismay of his followers. It must be borne in mind that in the twenties, South Africa and India were both parts of the British Empire. Start a Wiki. He had on his arm an armlet of solid gold.In , she began a series of biographies that included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gandhi, Madame Curie (all ), Theodore Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (). Further works included The Desperate Act (), A Free People (), Henry VIII (), In Search of Peace (), America’s Reign of Terror (), Zhivko of Yugoslavia (), and Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism ().
In , she wrote a history of the trial and executions of Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti called Justice Crucified, which was praised in The New York Times as "the most comprehensive and persuasive account of the case we have." She died at age 59 in of congestive heart failure.