Susan Taubes

Susan Taubes (born Judit Zsuzanna Feldmann, –6 November 1969) was a Hungarian-American writer and intellectual.

Taubes was born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. Her grandfather, Mózes Feldmann (1860–1927), was the head of the Neolog branch of the divided Hungarian rabbinate in Pest, and her father, Sándor Feldmann (–1972), was a psychoanalyst of Sándor Ferenczi's school, though the two had a falling out in 1923.

The misogyny of the literary field during her lifetime caused Taubes suffering. The literary critic Hugh Kenner, reviewing her book ''Divorcing'' in the ''New York Times'' on November 2, 1969, dismissed her as one of the "lady novelists" and “a quick-change artist with the clothes of other writers.” Taubes drowned four days after Kenner's review was published, and a reappraisal of her work began. In 2003, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, Germany, established an archive for Taubes's work, describing her life as a “story in which Jewish exile meets female intellectualism.” An intellectual biography of Taubes by Christina Pareigis was published in 2020, and the ''New York Review of Books'' reissued ''Divorcing'' the same year to appreciative reviews. In 2023, the ''New York Review of Books'' published Taubes’s novella ''Lament for Julia'' for the first time in addition to nine short stories. Provided by Wikipedia