Rhoda Truax Silberman (October 28, 1901 – June 29, 2000) was an American author.

Biography

Born Rhoda Truax in

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to Justice Charles Henry Truax of the

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and his wife, Caroline Sanders, she was a graduate of the

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and

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. She was the sister of arts administrator and cookbook author and editor, Carol Truax. Rhoda Truax married twice, firstly to Dr Robert Henry Aldrich of Boston in 1924 and later, to Henry R. Silberman, a businessman of

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, in 1955. She joined the

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in 1938. In 1950, Robert Heineman alleged that Truax had been a member of the Communist Party between 1943-1949. Truax wrote 12 novels and historical books, the best known being ''The Doctors Warren of Boston'', published by

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in 1968. She had lived in

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since 1992 and prior to that was a resident of

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for many decades.

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 * ''

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, 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)review found vie google scholar
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References

1901 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers American women novelists Barnard College alumni Horace Mann School alumni Novelists from New York City {{US-novelist-1900s-stub