Emily Weisberg Sunstein

Education

Born Emily Weisberg in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from high school there.

Career

The couple then moved to Elkins Park before raising three children in Wyncote. Before beginning her writing career, Sunstein was active in civic affairs She sat on the State Commission for Human Relations from 1970 to 1974, was the head of the state Conference on Women"s Economics Issues and the head of the Philadelphia Young Women’s Christian Association in 1975.

In 1989, her first book,: Romance and Reality (Little, Brown and Company, 1989) was published to critical acclaim.

She moved away from politics and started to enjoy other passions such as writing, collecting art, entertaining and horticulture. She remained active in Jewish causes until she became ill in the mid-1990s.

Achievements

• She won the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars in 1989.

Membership

A charter member of Americans for Democratic Action (founded in 1947), she later became the first woman to serve as head of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Jewish Committee.