Background
She was born as Lynn Friedman in Brooklyn, New New York
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Lynn Solotaroff
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She graduated from the University of Michigan and studied Russian as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Columbia University.
Career
She was also an academic and educator. She was a visiting scholar at the then-Russian Institute at Columbia University—now known as the Harriman Institute—and worked as its director of publications from 1977 to 1985. Among the books she translated was Tolstoy"s The of Ivan Ilyich (1981) and The Manitoba with the Shattered World by Alexander Luria.
She also contributed to Avrahm Yarmolinsky"s translation of Letters of Anton Chekhov (1973).
Foreign the last several years of her life she taught English as a Second Language (English as Second Language) at, among other schools, City College of New York and Touro College.
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She died at the Jewish Home & Hospital in New York City from lung cancer and emphysema, aged 64, on Monday, March 21, 1994.
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