Funeral services will be held Thursday for Fannie Hurst, for more than three decades one of America’s most popular novelists, who died in her home here Friday at 78, She explored Jewish life on New York’s lower east side, and the lives of other ethnic minorities in her 30 novels and hundreds of short stories.
Miss Hurst was born in Hamilton, Ohio, brought up in St. Louis, and educated at Washington University and Columbia University. Active in support of Jewish statehood, she visited Israel in 1953 at the invitation of the Israel Government. She contributed to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and to the Einstein Medical College of Yeshiva University.
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