Background
Stern, Gerd Jakob was born on October 12, 1928 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1936. Son of Otto and Lilly Stern.
import/export company executive poet
Stern, Gerd Jakob was born on October 12, 1928 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1936. Son of Otto and Lilly Stern.
Public Poems in Folio, Sausalito, California, 1956—1959. President Intermedia Foundation, Garnerville, New York, since 1967. Associate in education Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972—1974.
President Intermedia Systems Corporation, 1974—1982, Galilee Imports, Cresskill, New Jersey, 1990—1996. Owner Gerd Stern Etcetera, since 1996. Board directors Woodstock Museum, New York.
Member of Academy American Poets, Poetry Society of America.
Married Sara Shaw Stern (divorced 1999). Children from previous marriage: Zalman, Radha, Eric, Abram.