Rhoda Truax
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Rhoda Truax Silberman was an American
author
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Born Rhoda Truax in New York City
to Justice Charles Henry Truax of the New York State Supreme Court and his wife, Caroline Sanders, she was a graduate of the Horace Mann School
and Barnard College
in New York
.
Rhoda Truax wrote 12 novels & historical books, the best known being The Doctors Warren of Boston, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1968.
She married twice, firstly to Dr. Robert Henry Aldrich of Boston in 1924 and later, to Henry R. Silberman, a businessman of Boston
, in 1955.
Truax had lived in Colorado Springs since 1992 and prior to that was a resident of Cambridge, MA for many decades.
She was the sister of arts administrator and cookbook author and editor, Carol Truax
.
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Born Rhoda Truax in New York City
New York City
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to Justice Charles Henry Truax of the New York State Supreme Court and his wife, Caroline Sanders, she was a graduate of the Horace Mann School
Horace Mann School
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and Barnard College
Barnard College
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in New York
New York
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Rhoda Truax wrote 12 novels & historical books, the best known being The Doctors Warren of Boston, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1968.
She married twice, firstly to Dr. Robert Henry Aldrich of Boston in 1924 and later, to Henry R. Silberman, a businessman of Boston
Boston
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, in 1955.
Truax had lived in Colorado Springs since 1992 and prior to that was a resident of Cambridge, MA for many decades.
She was the sister of arts administrator and cookbook author and editor, Carol Truax
Carol Truax
Carol Truax was an American music administrator and an author of many cookbooks. She was noted both for her time as Executive Director of Fine Arts at Colorado College , and also as consultant in Fine Arts to the State University of New York. As author, Miss Truax’s most famous publications...
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Selected published works
- Hospital, E.P. Dutton and Co, 1932
- Doctors Carry the Keys, E.P. Dutton and Co, 1933
- Barry Scott, M.D: A novel, E.P. Dutton, 1935
- The Accident Ward Mystery, Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1937 (Hardcover)
- This Dynasty of Doctors, Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc, Indianapolis, 1940
- Green is the Golden Tree, Bobbs-Merril, Indianapolis, 1943
- Joseph ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister OM, FRS, PC , known as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., between 1883 and 1897, was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary...
, Father of Modern Surgery, Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis and New York, 1944 - The Doctors Jacobi, Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1952
- True Adventures of Doctors (with Paul Galdone), Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1954 (Hardcover, illustrated)
- With Equal Grace, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1964
- The Doctors Warren of Boston: First Family of Surgery, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1968 (Hardcover)