Hobson, Laura Z

Hobson, Laura Z

▪ American author
original name  Laura Kean Zametkin  
born June 18/19, 1900, New York City
died Feb. 28, 1986, New York City

      American novelist and short-story writer noted for her novel Gentleman's Agreement (1947), a best-selling study of anti-Semitism.

      The daughter of Jewish socialist parents, she was educated at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and married Thayer Hobson in 1930. The marriage ended in divorce in 1935. In the early 1930s she began writing advertising copy and short stories, and in 1934 she joined the promotional staff of the Luce publications (Time, Life, and Fortune magazines). After 1940 she devoted herself entirely to writing, producing a total of nine novels and hundreds of short stories and magazine articles. Hobson is best-known for Gentleman's Agreement, the story of an American gentile journalist who poses as a Jew in order to gain a firsthand experience of anti-Semitism in American life. The book is a scathing depiction of the subtle and insidious manifestations of anti-Semitism in American society at that time. Gentleman's Agreement was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1947. Hobson's other novels include The Trespassers (1943) and Consenting Adult (1975).

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