Henty, who wrote swashbuckling imperial adventures Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries Jane Porter and the historical novels of Alexandre Dumas.
Growing up Tuchman was influenced by the Twin Series of children’s books by Lucy Fitch Perkins George A. She was the second-born of three daughters her sisters were Josephine (Pomerance), who became active in the peace movement and died in 1980, and Anne W. Her mother, Alma, was the granddaughter of diplomat Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who served as ambassador to Turkey and Mexico under President Woodrow Wilson.
Her father, Maurice Wertheim, was an international banker, president of the American Jewish Congress, honorary trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and fund-raising chair in 1947, trustee of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, owner of The Nation, art collector, sportsman, and a founder of the Theatre Guild. Tuchman was born into a prominent New York family on January 30, 1912.
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