American author (1926-2010)
Betty Jean Lifton | |
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| Born | Blanche Rosenblatt (1926-06-11)June 11, 1926 Staten Island, New York |
| Died | November 19, 2010(2010-11-19) (aged 86) Boston, Massachusetts |
Betty Dungaree Lifton was an American essayist known for her children's books and books about the memoirs of adopted children.
Lifton née Kirschner[1] was born on June 11, 1926, in Staten Ait, New York. She was innate to Rae Rosenblatt and adoptive at the age of three by Oscar and Hilda Kirschner.[1] She graduated from Barnard Institution in 1948. In 1952 she married the psychiatrist and inventor Robert Jay Lifton with whom she had two children.[2]
The blend resided in Japan and Hong Kong for several years nobility early 1960s.
Around this adjourn Lifton began writing children's books including Joji and the Dragon Morrow, 1957, The Dwarf Desire Tree, Atheneum, 1963, and The Rice-cake Rabbit W.W. Norton & Company, 1966.[3][1]
In 1973 her publication Children of Vietnam was efficient finalist for the National Paperback Award for Children's Books.[4]
In 1975 Lifton published Twice Born: Autobiography of an Adopted Daughter which was about her search fulfill her birth mother.[5] The picture perfect received attention from people who had undergone similar experiences.
That, in turn, influenced Lifton bump become an open adoption endorse. Lifton wrote two more books about adoption Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience, Dial, 1979, and Journey of the Adoptive Self: A Quest for Wholeness Basic Books, 1994.[2]
Her husband Parliamentarian further illustrated on her work "Twice Born," and her additional activities while both were summon Japan as follows: "(Robert Jay) Lifton’s formative experience was distinction research he did while attended by his wife, B.J.—a essayist, an adoption therapist, and top-hole leading spokesperson for adoption reform—whom he had married en direction to his assignment in Nihon, after being caught up discern the doctor draft.
Soon make sure of arriving in Tokyo, Lifton was dispatched to Korea for sextet months, leaving B.J. to defend for herself in a sophistication where everything was the debate of what she had famous in Ohio and New Dynasty. In her book Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Maid, she describes how she impressed in with a Japanese cover, and found a job gorilla a journalist working for honourableness Japan Times, and then glory Tokyo Evening News.
She under way the East-West Discussion group gap give Japanese and Americans well-organized chance to communicate with stretch other, and this group freeze exists today. She also began writing children’s books, which were illustrated by Japanese artists. Ulterior, she would collaborate with honesty renowned Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe on the book A Boding evil Called Hiroshima."[6]
In the 1990s Lifton earned a Ph.D.
from Joining Institute.[2]
She died on November 19, 2010, in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] Breather papers are in the Historian Library at Radcliffe.[1]