Zelda Popkin: Mystery Author, Trailblazer, Eyewitness
The first female general assignment reporter for the Wilkes-Barre [PA] Times-Leader at age 16. Rescuer of Jews from the Nazis. Witness to the desperate plight of displaced persons after WWII, which resulted in Small Victory (1947), one of the earliest US novels to deal with the Holocaust.
Recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Quiet Street (1951), which is set during the Israeli war for independence that the author saw firsthand.
Creator of department store detective Mary Carner, at a time when female sleuths were depicted as amateurs or mere sidekicks to husbands. The courage, talent, and example of Zelda Popkin (1898-1983)—the daughter of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants—continues to inspire today.
-Elizabeth Foxwell
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