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Natasha Borovsky | |
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| Born | (1924-08-05)August 5, 1924 Paris, France |
| Died | May 31, 2012(2012-05-31) (aged 87) |
Natasha Borovsky (Russian:Наталья Александровна Боровская)(August 5, 1924 – May 31, 2012) was a Russian American poet andnovelist. She is the author of two celebrated works of historical fiction spanning the first half of the 20th century. Borovsky writes about the shattering effect of war on families and the decline of the European aristocracy. Her first novel,A Daughter of the Nobility, was translated into ten languages, including Russian and Polish. Her second,Lost Heritage, is a sequel with new characters, completing a drama that began during theRussian Revolution and ends at the time of theYalta Conference.
Borovsky was born in Paris to her father, the renowned Russian pianist,Alexander Borovsky, and her mother, Maria Sila-Nowicki, who was of noble Polish and Russian descent. She spent winters and summers at her mother's family estate nearKazimierz Dolny, south of Warsaw. She went to school in Germany, Switzerland and France. Forced to leave France at the outset ofWorld War II, she came with her mother to the United States where she spent two years atSarah Lawrence College and where her extraordinary language skills landed her a job translating wartime broadcasts from around the world for CBS News.
She worked at theOffice of War Information inNew York City, and at theHoover Institute,University of California, Berkeley's library and research facilities in Paris.
Borovsky married Stuart Dodds, an editor/general manager of the syndication division of theSan Francisco Chronicle; they lived together inBerkeley, California.[1]
