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'''Brenda Webster''' is an [[United States|America]]n [[writer]], [[critic]] and [[translation|translator]]. She is the author of four [[novels]], including ''The Beheading Game'' (2006) and ''Vienna Triangle'' (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] and the [[Los Angeles Times]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Scott Manning PR Website|url=http://www.scottmanningpr.com/biography.html|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref> Her forthcoming novel, ''After Auschwitz: A Love Story'', to be published in 2013, is a story of an elderly man dealing with the early stages of dementia as he struggles to hold on to his memories and cope with his changing relationship to his wife.<ref>Interview with the author, May 2013</ref>
'''Brenda Webster''' is an [[United States|America]]n writer, critic and translator. She is the author of four novels, including ''The Beheading Game'' (2006) and ''Vienna Triangle'' (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] and the [[Los Angeles Times]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Scott Manning PR Website|url=http://www.scottmanningpr.com/biography.html|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref> Her forthcoming novel, ''After Auschwitz: A Love Story'', to be published in 2013, is a story of an elderly man dealing with the early stages of dementia as he struggles to hold on to his memories and cope with his changing relationship to his wife.<ref>Interview with the author, May 2013</ref>


Webster is the current president of ''PEN West''.<ref>[http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1559 PEN West Website]</ref>
Webster is the current president of ''PEN West''.<ref>[http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1559 PEN West Website]</ref>
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==


Brenda Webster was born in New York City in 1936, the daughter of abstract expressionist painter [[Ethel Schwabacher]] and the prominent entertainment lawyer [[Wolf Schwabacher]]. Webster's memoir ''The Last Good Freudian'' recounts a privileged childhood that was deeply affected by her family's devotion to Freudian ideology. Webster herself entered psychoanalysis at age 14, but eventually rebelled against what she saw as the patriarchy of orthodox [[Freudianism]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Jeffrey|title=Freudian Ideology in the Final Analysis / A memoir offers a respectful critique of life on the couch|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Freudian-Ideology-in-the-Final-Analysis-A-2760865.php|publisher=The San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
Brenda Webster was born in New York City in 1936, the daughter of abstract expressionist painter [[Ethel Schwabacher]] and the prominent entertainment lawyer [[Wolf Schwabacher]]. Webster's memoir ''The Last Good Freudian'' recounts a privileged childhood that was deeply affected by her family's devotion to Freudian ideology. Webster herself entered psychoanalysis at age 14, but eventually rebelled against what she saw as the patriarchy of orthodox [[Freudianism]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Jeffrey|title=Freudian Ideology in the Final Analysis / A memoir offers a respectful critique of life on the couch|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Freudian-Ideology-in-the-Final-Analysis-A-2760865.php|publisher=The San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>


Webster was educated at [[Swarthmore College]], [[Barnard College]], and [[Columbia University]], and completed [[doctoral studies]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's National Book Association April Spotlight on Brenda Webster: An Interview from the San Francisco Chapter newsletter, Bookworm|url=http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=8|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref> She has three children and five grandchildren, and splits her time between Berkeley and Rome. Her husband is [[Ira M. Lapidus]], Professor Emeritus of History at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and author of ''A History of Islamic Societies''.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Islamic Societies|url=http://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_Islamic_Societies.html?id=I3mVUEzm8xMC|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=UC Berkeley Department of History|url=http://history.berkeley.edu/people/ira-m-lapidus|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
Webster was educated at [[Swarthmore College]], [[Barnard College]], and [[Columbia University]], and completed [[doctoral studies]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's National Book Association April Spotlight on Brenda Webster: An Interview from the San Francisco Chapter newsletter, Bookworm|url=http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=8|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref> She has three children and five grandchildren, and splits her time between Berkeley and Rome. Her husband is [[Ira M. Lapidus]], Professor Emeritus of History at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and author of ''A History of Islamic Societies''.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Islamic Societies|url=http://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_Islamic_Societies.html?id=I3mVUEzm8xMC|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=UC Berkeley Department of History|url=http://history.berkeley.edu/people/ira-m-lapidus|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>


== Writings ==
== Writings ==
Brenda Webster is the [[author]] of four [[novels]]: ''Sins of the Mothers'',<ref>Baskerville, 1993</ref> ''Paradise Farm'',<ref>State Univ of New York Pr, 1999</ref> ''The Beheading Game''<ref>Wings Press, 2006</ref> and ''Vienna Triangle''.<ref>Wings Press, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.redroom.com/author/brenda-webster Red Room Biography: Brenda Webster]</ref> Her [[memoir]], ''The Last Good Freudian'' was published by Holmes and Meier in 2000. Webster also published a translation with Gabriella Romani of [[:it:Edith Bruck Edith Bruck|Edith Bruck]]'s [[Holocaust]] [[novel]], ''Lettera alla Madre'' in 2006.<ref>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bruck,+Edith.+Letter+to+My+Mother.-a0204858007 The Free Library by Farlex]</ref>
Brenda Webster is the author of four novels: ''Sins of the Mothers'',<ref>Baskerville, 1993</ref> ''Paradise Farm'',<ref>State Univ of New York Pr, 1999</ref> ''The Beheading Game''<ref>Wings Press, 2006</ref> and ''Vienna Triangle''.<ref>Wings Press, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.redroom.com/author/brenda-webster Red Room Biography: Brenda Webster]</ref> Her [[memoir]], ''The Last Good Freudian'' was published by Holmes and Meier in 2000. Webster also published a translation with Gabriella Romani of [[:it:Edith Bruck Edith Bruck|Edith Bruck]]'s [[Holocaust]] novel, ''Lettera alla Madre'' in 2006.<ref>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bruck,+Edith.+Letter+to+My+Mother.-a0204858007 The Free Library by Farlex]</ref>


''Vienna Triangle'', the latest novel by Webster, was published in Fall of 2009, and explores [[Sigmund Freud]]'s role in the death of a brilliant disciple.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ytANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=Viktor+Tausk+brilliant+disciple+freud&source=bl&ots=laBpqVmhnR&sig=0LWHZ5-YLHELhqf9BNV2jxM3Gk0&hl=en&ei=VrqySt6dMpOqswPxtLieDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#v=onepage&q=&f=false Neil Hertz, and Tausk's articles, Oeuvres psychanalytiques (Paris; Payot, 1975)]</ref> Set in the late 1960s, ''Vienna Triangle'' follows Kate, a graduate student in psychology at Columbia, as she meets the famed Freudian theorist [[Helene Deutsch]] and learns about both the earliest days of psychoanalysis, and her own family's mysterious past.<ref>{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Jeffrey|title=Book review: A tangled 'Vienna Triangle'|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Book-review-A-tangled-Vienna-Triangle-3176803.php|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
''Vienna Triangle'', the latest novel by Webster, was published in Fall of 2009, and explores [[Sigmund Freud]]'s role in the death of a brilliant disciple.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ytANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=Viktor+Tausk+brilliant+disciple+freud&source=bl&ots=laBpqVmhnR&sig=0LWHZ5-YLHELhqf9BNV2jxM3Gk0&hl=en&ei=VrqySt6dMpOqswPxtLieDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#v=onepage&q=&f=false Neil Hertz, and Tausk's articles, Oeuvres psychanalytiques (Paris; Payot, 1975)]</ref> Set in the late 1960s, ''Vienna Triangle'' follows Kate, a graduate student in psychology at Columbia, as she meets the famed Freudian theorist [[Helene Deutsch]] and learns about both the earliest days of psychoanalysis, and her own family's mysterious past.<ref>{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Jeffrey|title=Book review: A tangled 'Vienna Triangle'|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Book-review-A-tangled-Vienna-Triangle-3176803.php|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>


Webster has also written two critical studies: "Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study"<ref>[http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.044.0488a Pep Web Book Search]</ref> and "Blake's Prophetic Psychology",<ref>[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2889517M/Blake's_prophetic_psychology Open Library]</ref> which have appeared in several [[anthologies]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Brenda-S.-Webster/e/B001HPL90C Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study (Stanford)]</ref><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Brenda-S.-Webster/e/B001HPL90C Blake's Prophetic Psychology (Macmillan)]</ref> She has also translated [[poetry]] from the [[Italy|Italian]] for ''The Other Voice''<ref>[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2093422 Australian National Library]</ref> and ''The Penguin Book of Women Poets''.<ref>[http://johntranter.com/reviewer/1986-penguin-women.shtml John Ranter Review]</ref> She is also the co-editor of ''Hungry for Light: The Journal of Ethel Schwabacher'', and wrote the introduction to the [[Signet Classics]] edition of [[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]].<ref>[|title=Indiana University Press|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=19681 Indiana University Press]</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|url=http://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Green-Knight-Signet-Classics/dp/0451531191|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
Webster has also written two critical studies: "Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study"<ref>[http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.044.0488a Pep Web Book Search]</ref> and "Blake's Prophetic Psychology",<ref>[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2889517M/Blake's_prophetic_psychology Open Library]</ref> which have appeared in several [[anthologies]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Brenda-S.-Webster/e/B001HPL90C Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study (Stanford)]</ref><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Brenda-S.-Webster/e/B001HPL90C Blake's Prophetic Psychology (Macmillan)]</ref> She has also translated poetry from the Italian for ''The Other Voice''<ref>[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2093422 Australian National Library]</ref> and ''The Penguin Book of Women Poets''.<ref>[http://johntranter.com/reviewer/1986-penguin-women.shtml John Ranter Review]</ref> She is also the co-editor of ''Hungry for Light: The Journal of Ethel Schwabacher'', and wrote the introduction to the [[Signet Classics]] edition of [[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]].<ref>[|title=Indiana University Press|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=19681 Indiana University Press]</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|url=http://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Green-Knight-Signet-Classics/dp/0451531191|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>


In addition to her novels, translations, and academic books and essays, Webster is a prolific author of fictional short stories. Eleven of these stories were published in the collection ''Tattoo Bird'', published online by FictionNet in 1996, as well as in various journals including ''[[Women's Studies]]'', ''[[The Chariton Review]]'', ''Caprice'' and other literary publications.<ref>{{cite news|title=Red Room|url=http://redroom.com/member/brenda-webster/books/tattoo-bird}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Brenda Webster's website|url=http://brendawebster.com/tattoo.html|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
In addition to her novels, translations, and academic books and essays, Webster is a prolific author of fictional short stories. Eleven of these stories were published in the collection ''Tattoo Bird'', published online by FictionNet in 1996, as well as in various journals including ''[[Women's Studies]]'', ''[[The Chariton Review]]'', ''Caprice'' and other literary publications.<ref>{{cite news|title=Red Room|url=http://redroom.com/member/brenda-webster/books/tattoo-bird}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Brenda Webster's website|url=http://brendawebster.com/tattoo.html|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Brenda Webster has been nominated for two Northern [[California Book Awards]] (2007).
Brenda Webster has been nominated for two Northern [[California Book Awards]] (2007).


*[[Fiction]]: ''The Beheading Game'' by Brenda Webster.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wings Press|url=http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=14&/The-Beheading-Game/Brenda-Webster/|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
*Fiction: ''The Beheading Game'' by Brenda Webster.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wings Press|url=http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=14&/The-Beheading-Game/Brenda-Webster/|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>
*[[Translation]]: ''Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck'', translated by Brenda Webster.<ref>{{cite web|title=Setton Hall University|url=http://www.shu.edu/academics/scholarship/book/319782|accessdate=3 June 2013}}</ref>
*Translation: ''Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck'', translated by Brenda Webster.<ref>{{cite web|title=Setton Hall University|url=http://www.shu.edu/academics/scholarship/book/319782|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>


Her short story ''Tattoo Bird'' received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the [[H.E. Francis]] Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a [[Pushcart Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Brenda Webster's website|url=http://brendawebster.com/tattoo.html}}</ref>
Her short story ''Tattoo Bird'' received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the [[H.E. Francis]] Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a [[Pushcart Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Brenda Webster's website|url=http://brendawebster.com/tattoo.html}}</ref>

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Brenda Webster
File:Brenda.webster.jpg
Born1936
New York City
OccupationWriter, critic and translator
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSwarthmore College, Barnard College, Columbia University, UC Berkeley
Notable worksVienna Triangle, The Beheading Game, The Last Good Freudian
SpouseIra M. Lapidus
RelativesEthel Schwabacher, George Oppen
Website
www.brendawebster.com

Brenda Webster is an American writer, critic and translator. She is the author of four novels, including The Beheading Game (2006) and Vienna Triangle (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times.[1] Her forthcoming novel, After Auschwitz: A Love Story, to be published in 2013, is a story of an elderly man dealing with the early stages of dementia as he struggles to hold on to his memories and cope with his changing relationship to his wife.[2]

Webster is the current president of PEN West.[3]

Biography

Brenda Webster was born in New York City in 1936, the daughter of abstract expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher and the prominent entertainment lawyer Wolf Schwabacher. Webster's memoir The Last Good Freudian recounts a privileged childhood that was deeply affected by her family's devotion to Freudian ideology. Webster herself entered psychoanalysis at age 14, but eventually rebelled against what she saw as the patriarchy of orthodox Freudianism.[4]

Webster was educated at Swarthmore College, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and completed doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[5] She has three children and five grandchildren, and splits her time between Berkeley and Rome. Her husband is Ira M. Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of A History of Islamic Societies.[6][7]

Writings

Brenda Webster is the author of four novels: Sins of the Mothers,[8] Paradise Farm,[9] The Beheading Game[10] and Vienna Triangle.[11][12] Her memoir, The Last Good Freudian was published by Holmes and Meier in 2000. Webster also published a translation with Gabriella Romani of Edith Bruck's Holocaust novel, Lettera alla Madre in 2006.[13]

Vienna Triangle, the latest novel by Webster, was published in Fall of 2009, and explores Sigmund Freud's role in the death of a brilliant disciple.[14] Set in the late 1960s, Vienna Triangle follows Kate, a graduate student in psychology at Columbia, as she meets the famed Freudian theorist Helene Deutsch and learns about both the earliest days of psychoanalysis, and her own family's mysterious past.[15]

Webster has also written two critical studies: "Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study"[16] and "Blake's Prophetic Psychology",[17] which have appeared in several anthologies.[18][19] She has also translated poetry from the Italian for The Other Voice[20] and The Penguin Book of Women Poets.[21] She is also the co-editor of Hungry for Light: The Journal of Ethel Schwabacher, and wrote the introduction to the Signet Classics edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.[22][23]

In addition to her novels, translations, and academic books and essays, Webster is a prolific author of fictional short stories. Eleven of these stories were published in the collection Tattoo Bird, published online by FictionNet in 1996, as well as in various journals including Women's Studies, The Chariton Review, Caprice and other literary publications.[24][25]

Awards

Brenda Webster has been nominated for two Northern California Book Awards (2007).

  • Fiction: The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster.[26]
  • Translation: Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webster.[27]

Her short story Tattoo Bird received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the H.E. Francis Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[28]

References

  1. ^ "Scott Manning PR Website". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Interview with the author, May 2013
  3. ^ PEN West Website
  4. ^ Berman, Jeffrey. "Freudian Ideology in the Final Analysis / A memoir offers a respectful critique of life on the couch". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  5. ^ "Women's National Book Association April Spotlight on Brenda Webster: An Interview from the San Francisco Chapter newsletter, Bookworm". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  6. ^ A History of Islamic Societies. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  7. ^ "UC Berkeley Department of History". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  8. ^ Baskerville, 1993
  9. ^ State Univ of New York Pr, 1999
  10. ^ Wings Press, 2006
  11. ^ Wings Press, 2009
  12. ^ Red Room Biography: Brenda Webster
  13. ^ The Free Library by Farlex
  14. ^ Neil Hertz, and Tausk's articles, Oeuvres psychanalytiques (Paris; Payot, 1975)
  15. ^ Berman, Jeffrey. "Book review: A tangled 'Vienna Triangle'". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  16. ^ Pep Web Book Search
  17. ^ Open Library
  18. ^ Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study (Stanford)
  19. ^ Blake's Prophetic Psychology (Macmillan)
  20. ^ Australian National Library
  21. ^ John Ranter Review
  22. ^ [|title=Indiana University Press|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=19681 Indiana University Press]
  23. ^ "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  24. ^ "Red Room".
  25. ^ "Brenda Webster's website". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  26. ^ "Wings Press". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  27. ^ "Setton Hall University". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  28. ^ "Brenda Webster's website".

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