{{short description|American novelist}}
'''Edith Mendel Stern''' (24 June 1901 – 8 February 1975) was a novelist, book editor, journalist, critic, and writer of books and booklets written as guides on how to cope with problems related to aging, mental illness, and disabled children.<ref name="Shulevitz">{{cite web|author=Shulevitz, Marion|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stern-edith-mendel|title=Edith Mendel Stern (1901–1975)|website=Jewish Women's Archive}}</ref>
==Biography== Born to a Jewish family in New York City, Edith Mendel earned a B.A. from Barnard College in 1922. She was on the editorial staff of Alfred A. Knopf and subsequently on the editorial staffs of several other publishing houses, including Boni & Liveright. She married William A. Stern II, a Justice Department lawyer. After publishing four novels from 1927 to 1935, she wrote books on mental health aimed at a popular audience.<ref name=Shulevitz/>
==Works== ===Novels=== * {{cite book|title=Purse Strings|year=1927|location=NY|publisher=Boni & Liveright}} * {{cite book|title=Scarlet Heels|year=1928|location=NY|publisher=H. Liveright}} * {{cite book|title=Men Are Clumsy Lovers|year=1934|location=NY|publisher=Vanguard Press}} * {{cite book|title=Escape from Youth|year=1935|location=NY|publisher=Coward-McCann}}
===Nonfiction books and pamphlets=== * with Samuel Warren Hamilton, MD: {{cite book|title=Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family|year=1942|publisher=The Commonwealth fund |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000661362}} (5th edition 1968) * with Mary E. Corcoran: {{cite book|title=The Attendant's Guide|year=1945|publisher=The Commonwealth fund |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007936472}} * with Howard W. Hopkirk: {{cite book|title=The Housemother's Guide|year=1946|publisher=The Commonwealth fund |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007078276}} * with Samuel Warren Hamilton, MD: {{cite book|title=Better Mental Hospitals: A Guide for the Citizen|year=1947}} ({{cite book|title=revised edition|year=1955|publisher=National Association for Mental Health |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002066266}}) * with Elsa Castendyck: {{cite book|title=The Handicapped Child: A Guide for Parents|year=1950|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001108358}} * with Mabel Ross: {{cite book|title=You and Your Aging Parents|location=NY|publisher=A. A. Wyn|year=1952}}; {{cite book|title=revised edition|location=NY|publisher=Harper & Row|year=1965|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001110272}} * {{cite book|title=Notes for After 50|year=1955}} * {{cite book|title=A Full Life After 65|series=Public affairs pamphlet, no. 347 |year=1963|publisher=Public Affairs Committee |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000978792}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edith-m-stern-papers-5746 Summary of Edith M. Stern papers, 1962–1973, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]
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