Popkin, Zelda


Zelda PopkinZelda Popkin (1898-1983) was an American author. She was born in Brooklyn. New York and educated at Columbia University and NYU Law School. She became the first woman general assignment reporter on the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader at the age of 17. In 1919 she married Louis Popkin and worked with him in the public relations business until his death in 1943. Her novel Small Victory was one of the earliest US novels to deal with the Holocaust. She received the National Jewish Book Award for Quiet Street (1947).

 

Her series detective was Mary Carner.

 

See her Wikipedia entry for more details.

 

Two of her mysteries are available from Boson Books.

 

Bibliography

 

Death Wears a White Gardenia (1938)

Murder in the Mist (1940)

Time Off for Murder (1940)

Dead Man's Gift (1941)

No Crime for a Lady (1942)

So Much Blood (1944)

A Death of Innocence (1971)