Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin (21 November 1922(1922-11-21) – (2013-02-08)8 Februar 2013) wis an Armenie-American author an a professor o Inglis at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Her beuks include the novelle A Houseful of Love (a New York Times[1] an New York Herald Tribune[2] bestseller) an the history Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City.[3] Her younger brither wis the neurosurgeon Edgar Housepian.
Housepian Dobkin wis born in 1922 tae Dr. Moses Housepian an his wife Makrouhie, Armenie refugees in New York City, twa an a hauf months after her maternal grandfaither wis killt bi a Turkish sodger durin the burnin o Smyrna frae which her grandmither fled as a refugee.
She attendit Barnard College, graduatin in 1944, an wis a professor o leeteratur an writin at Barnard frae 1957 tae 1993,[4] an aw Associate Dean o Studies frae 1976 tae 1993. Her students includit the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.[5]
She wis awairdit the Anania Shirakatsi prize o the Academy o Sciences o Soviet Armenie[6] an wis the recipient o an honorar doctorate frae Wilson College an aw.[7] She livit in Manhattan near Barnard at 425 Riverside Drive.[8]
↑page 47, Kessabtzis in U.S.A. and Canada 1990 30th Edition, directory o Kessabtzis (Armenies frae her faither Dr. Moses M. Housepian's hametoun o Kessab in Syria, an thir descendants) published bi the Kessab Educational Association of Los Angeles, Inc. (a California Non-Profit Corporation)