Adrienne Thomas

Adrienne Thomas was the pseudonym of Hertha A. Deutsch, nee Strauch (1897–1980), a German autobiographical novelist.

Life Hertha Strauch was born in St Avold in Alsace-Lorraine, then part of Germany, on 24 June 1897. She grew up bilingual in German and French, going to school in Metz, where her family owned a small department store. During World War I she became a nurse for the Red Cross, at first in Metz and later in Berlin, where her family moved. During the 1920s she trained as a singer and actor at the Clara Lion Conservatory in Frankfurt.

Works Die Katrin wird Soldat: Ein Roman aus Elsass-Lothringen, Berlin: Propyläen, 1930 Translated by Margaret L. Goldsmith as Cathérine Joins Up, London: E. Mathews & Marrot, Ltd., 1931; Katrin becomes a Soldier, Boston: Little, Brown, 1931 Dreiviertel Neugier: Roman, 1934 Katrin! Die Welt brennt!: Roman, 1936 Translated by Marguerite Wolff as Child of Unrest, London: Hutchinston & Co., 1937 Andrea: eine Erzählung von jungen Menschen , 1937 Von Johanna zu Jane: Roman, 1939 Reisen Sie ab, Mademoiselle!, 1940 Ein Fenster am East River, 1947 Wettlauf mit dem Traum: Roman, 1949 Da und dort, 1950