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Helen Yglesias (Helen Bassine) was born on 29 March, 1915 in New York City, is an American novelist. Discover Helen Yglesias's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

Popular As Helen Bassine
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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 29 March 1915
Birthday 29 March
Birthplace New York City
Date of death 2008
Died Place New York City
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Bernard Cole Jose Yglesias

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Children 3, including Rafael Yglesias

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1915

Helen Bassine Yglesias (March 29, 1915 – March 28, 2008) was an American novelist.

Yglesias was the youngest of seven children born to Solomon and Kate Bassine, both Yiddish-speaking immigrants from the Russian-controlled portion of Poland who lived in an apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Solomon Bassine was the failed owner of several grocery stores.

Helen wrote her first novel about a teenage girl in a New York City high school, on three notebooks on her kitchen table when she was a teenager herself.

The book was never published, however, and, after high school, she worked at jobs selling underwear, stuffing envelopes, teaching ballroom dancing, and typing manuscripts.

1930

The protagonist is Mary Moody Schwartz, the daughter of a Communist who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union during the 1930s.

According to the New York Times, it delved into "the roots of American radicalism, the story evolves into an account of one woman's struggle with cancer and the disorganized attempts of her family and friends to help her."

1936

She joined the Young Communist League in 1936.

1940

Helen Yglesias was on the staff of The Daily Worker during the 1940s where she wrote books reviews and edited the cultural section of the paper.

1952

She then left the Communist Party in 1952.

1964

In 1964 she became a staff member of The Nation, and later served as its literary editor.

Yglesias was also a member of the Newspaper Guild.

1965

Yglesias worked as an editor at The Nation from 1965 to 1969, by which time she was a mother of 3.

1968

In 1968, she signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

1972

She started writing professionally when she was 54; her first published novel was How She Died (1972).

1981

Arguably Yglesias' most famous work is Sweetsir (1981), a story about a man who was known for his womanizing traits and his cruelty toward his five wives.

Set in a small New England town, the fifth wife had had enough of the cruelty and stabbed the husband to death.

It goes on to tell of her trial and examines the idea of liberation.

For many years she lived and wrote in Brooklin, Maine.

2008

Yglesias died on March 28, 2008, one day short of her 93rd birthday, in Manhattan of natural causes.

She is survived by her daughter Tamar Cole, Lewis Cole, a son from her first marriage to Bernard Cole; and novelist and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias, a son from her second marriage to the novelist Jose Yglesias; and six grandchildren, including columnist Matthew Yglesias.