About Reba Paeff Mirsky
Lived 1902 – 1966 (aged 64). Reba Paeff Mirsky was an American writer.
Reba Paeff Mirsky (May 25, 1902 – November 22, 1966) was an American classical musician and children's writer. A 1953 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote three books on the fictional Zulu girl Nomusa: Thirty-one Brothers and Sisters, Seven Grandmothers (1955), and Nomusa and the New Magic (1962).
Biography Reba Paeff was born on May 25, 1902, in Boston.
Mirsky taught music at the City and Country School and The New School for Social Research and worked as music director (1943–1949) at Ethical Culture Fieldston School. allowing her to travel to the homeland of the Zulu people and publish two more sequels for that book: Seven Grandmothers (1955) and Nomusa and the New Magic (1962). Her sister was sculptor Bashka Paeff and her brother-in-law was Louis Lazarus Silverman.
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American musician and author
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Reba Paeff Mirsky was born on 25 May 1902 in Boston.
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Reba Paeff Mirsky died on 22 November 1966.
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