Thalia Cheronis Selz

Background

Selz was born on October 15, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; the daughter of Nicholas Dimitrios and Irene (Hamlin) Cheronis.

Education

Selz received a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in 1947. Four years later she was given a Master of Arts degree from the University of Chicago.

Career

Selz began her career as an instructor of English at Pomona College in 1955 and held it for two years. In 1966, she took a position of a lecturer of the writing department at Columbia University. Then in 1967, Thalia was appointed an instructor of English at Queens College, where she worked for a year and again in 1970-1971.

Also in 1976, she took the same position at the Northeastern Illinois University. In 1979, Selz was a visiting fiction writer at the University of Missouri. Two years later she held the position of a writer-in-residence at Trinity College, where she served until 1998.

For more than 30 years, she compiled and wrote the biographies and interviewed the artists for the show and catalogue, "Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art 2000."

Achievements

• Selz`s fiction appeared in many magazines, including "Partisan Review", "Antaeus" and "Chicago" and has been anthologized in "Best American Short Stories".
  
  Thalia was one of the three founding editors of Story Quarterly.
  
  She received a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Arts in 1990, 1991 and Papanikolas Charitable Trust in 1991, 1992.

Works

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  • Leonard Baskin: Sculptuur, Tekeningen, Grafiek 1961
  • StoryQuarterly 1 1975

Membership

Selz was a member of the Association for Writing Programs, Greek-American Women's Network, Modern Greek Studies Association and Poets & Writers Inc.

Connections

On June 10, 1948 Thalia Selz married Peter Howard Selz, with whom she divorced in August 1965. They have 2 daughters.

Father:

Nicholas Dimitrios Cheronis

Mother:

Irene (Hamlin) Cheronis

Spouse:

Peter Howard Selz

He is a former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Daughter:

Tanya Selz

Daughter:

Gabrielle Selz

Brother:

Dion Cheronis

Grandson:

Theo Mync