James Stern

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James Stern (26 December 1904 – 22 November 1993) Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.

The son of a British cavalry officer, Stern was born in County Meath, Ireland. After working in Southern Rhodesia as a young man, he worked for his family's bank in London and Germany. He lived for a while in Paris, where he met his wife Tania Kurella, whom he married in 1935. They moved to New York in the 1940s, and in 1961 moved to Hatch Manor, in Wiltshire.

His fiction includes The Heartless Land (1932); Something Wrong (1938); The Man who was Loved (1952); and The Stories of James Stern (1969).

The Hidden Damage (1947) was his account of his work in Germany with the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945, where he served along with W. H. Auden.

Among his lifelong friends and correspondents were Auden, Djuna Barnes, and Samuel Beckett.

He was married to a physical therapist, Tania Kurella, with whom he collaborated on many translations from the German.

[edit] References

• Unsigned obituary, The Times, 27 November 1993
• Anne Chishom, Obituary, The Guardian, 24 November 1993, p. 41
• Nicholas Jenkins, Obituary, W. H. Auden Society Newsletter, 12 (1994)