Background
Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949.
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Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949.
Radcliffe College; Harvard University.
In 1953, she and editor Jason Epstein began a marriage that lasted 37 years. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank"s Diary of a Young Girl, among other books She next worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and The Partisan Review.
She and Robert B. Silvers became the editors.
Barbara Epstein remained at the New York Review of Books as an editor for 43 years. The Epsteins divorced in 1980.
Barbara Epstein lived with journalist Murray Kempton until his death in 1997. She continued in her editing until shortly before her death.
Epstein died on June 16, 2006 of lung cancer in New York City at age 77.