Laura Z. Hobson
Novelist
An American novelist, she is particularly known for Gentlemen's Agreement, a work that explores the issue of antisemitism in the United States. Her other works, published during the 1960s and 1970s, include First Paper and Consenting Adult.
She studied at Cornell University and later worked as a staff writer for Life, Fortune, and Time magazines.
Her most their novel, Gentleman's Agreement, reached #1 on The New York Times Best-Sellers List and sold over 1.6 million copies.
She married Francis Thayer Hobson in 1930. Following her 1935 divorce, she adopted a son and gave birth to a second son out of wedlock.
She and Diane Ackerman both studied at Cornell University.