Rona jaffe biography

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Rona jaffe biography

12 June 1932 in New York City; d. 30 December 2005 in London, England), author of popular novels who focused on groups of women seeking balance between marriage and careers.

Jaffe was the only child of Samuel Jaffe, an elementary-school teacher and principal, and his first wife, Diana (Ginsberg) Jaffe, a teacher with an independent fortune.

Jaffe grew up in comfortable circumstances on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She graduated from the Dalton School at age fifteen, in 1947, and from Radcliffe College, the Harvard-affiliated women’s school, in 1951 with a BA in English, having spent a summer at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, in Vermont.

Jaffe went to work as a file clerk and secretary at a New York publisher immediately after college graduation, as does the lead character in her first novel, The Best of Everything (1958).

This well-known work was, in fact, based on the four years Jaffe served as associate editor at Fawcett Publications, from 1952